Presented in clear and accessible language with wonderfully supportive graphics, Roberts offers the reader a voyage through the development of human knowledge. He then examines the outstanding mysteries of modern physics, the phenomena that lie outside the borders of our current understanding and suggests that the next step in our intellectual journey is to treat the vacuum of space as a superfluid composed of interactive quanta. With this proposition Roberts imbues the vacuum with fractal geometry and opens the door to explaining the mysteries of physics geometrically.
Roberts' model has been praised for offering an intuitively accessible picture of eleven dimensions and for powerfully extending the insight of general relativity, while offering us access to the underlying deterministic dynamics of quantum mechanics. That remarkably simple picture explains the mysteries of modern physics in a way that is fully commensurate with Einstein's intuition and generates several testable predictions.