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CHRISTOPHER Potter’s new book sweeps across both space and time in an ambitious attempt to show what science has revealed about our place in the cosmos in a way that is accessible and yet doesn’t skimp on the science. He is hardly the first to take on this challenge – Bill Bryson’s Short History of Nearly Everything comes to mind – but Potter’s crisp, authoritative writing and his deft handling of difficult subjects makes this a book worth reading. At times he drifts into an encyclopedic recounting of facts, and some readers may bristle at his conclusion that mysticism and modern science have…
