Alternatively, in what is known as quantum field theory, physicists have also found that particles known as virtual particles can come into existence from apparent nothingness.
Quantum field theory captures all of quantum physics and combines it with the special theory of relativity and is the best description of the Universe we have.
On one end we describe how the fundamental particles work and interact with each other with quantum field theory which explains electromagnetism and the nuclear strong and nuclear weak forces.
Unfortunately Quantum field theory doesn't include gravity and so physicists don't know how to join together quantum physics and the general theory of relativity leading to the giant chasm of ignorance.
Mr Close is among today's best writers on the history of quantum mechanics and its associated field theories, and his book is more a biography of the boson than of the man.