*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting Quest for a new Form of matter.
When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivab. "A riveting tale of derring-do" ( Nature ), this book reads like James Gleick\'s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting Quest for a new Form of matter