Essential Elements

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 in 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 lightening tour of things small, things invisible, and some things so minute and strange that no scientist is sure if they actually exist.