Edouard Br zin is professor emeritus at the University Pierre and Marie Curie and an honorary professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. He has taught at many universities outside France, notably, Princeton (1971-72), Harvard (Loeb lectures, 1974-75 and 1982), Oxford (1983) and Amsterdam (Van der Waals Chair, 2000). He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. "This book is an account of some of the uncertainties of contemporary physics, and it aims...