**AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST**Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of
the technologies that allow us to look up to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.
'An electrifying new history of the universe' HANNAH FRY author of Rutherford and Fry's
Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching
13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future
hold? And how do scientists study the entire universe? The Universe in a Box is Andrew
Pontzen's tribute to simulations - the remarkable computer codes that over the last century
have allowed us to understand the distant past and far future of the universe. It reframes what
we think we know about galaxies black holes and matter itself. And it reveals the stories of
the pioneering scientists who unlocked the mysteries of space from redshift to improbable dark
materials that pass ghostlike through solid rock. Illuminating provocative and bold this is
the story of our home the cosmos through simulations: mini-universes inside computers. 'I was
enlightened amazed and profoundly impressed' SIR PHILIP PULLMAN author of His Dark Materials
