If you’re looking for great stories to share around the campfire while singing Kumbaya, this book might be just right for you! It’s a collection of entertaining essays (with quite a bit of overlap between them) from a pretty good writer who doesn’t actually ever demonstrate much depth of knowledge; but plenty of breadth.
After comparing the title of the book with its contents, you might think the author is unintentionally demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger Effect; at least, that’s my take-away after listening to this entire Audible.
Maybe the book’s title was just a bad choice, so I was expecting too much. The essays do contain a lot of details, just not the necessary depth to give those details meaning.
If you’re looking for something with more depth in the physics arena specifically, but a lot less breadth, try “What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics” by Adam Becker. It’s still not deep enough for my taste, but it’s a better choice than Jim Holt’s book here.