This book came out January 2017. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. It is written elegantly but simply for the non-scientist to understand. The book includes a plausible description of what everything and I mean everything is made of. Rovelli's writing converted me from a String Theory fan to a Loop Quantum Field fan!

I will now embarrass myself with meagerly trying to explain some of what I took away from the book. We know that our perception of the reality around us is limited, but Rovelli clearly explains how our five senses only see a small part of what is surrounding us. He moves away from the idea of an infinite universe to a finite one in which our reality is pocketed in a specific place inside what is actually there. Think of everything being a giant web with thicker and thinner spots of mass. We can't see the web connecting everything but it is there. Spooky but exciting.

One of my favorite excerpts:
"The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are *themselves* space (emphasis mine)."