Essential elements : atoms, quarks, and the periodic table

What is everything around us made of, and how did it get there? What arcane secrets hide in the modern alchemist's laboratory?

Is there a hidden order to matter itself, known only to a select few?

You hold in your hands the smallest guide to the building blocks of the universe ever assembled on Earth. Let Matt Tweed take you on a lightning tour of things small, things invisible, and some things so minute and strange that no scientist is sure if they actually exist.