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The matter we know only accounts for 5% of the total matter in the entire universe, and the other 95% is dark matter and dark energy. The matter that makes us all comes from exploding stars, and that matter is closely tied to tuned values in the constants of physics.

Food, industrial raw materials, fuels, waste emissions, growing human populations and consumption all challenge the relationship between human existence and our planet. Nanotechnology, 3D printing technology, computer simulation and the research and development of profile materials are constantly renewing the possibilities created by human beings in the field of material creation. The study of human life has also developed from pure biomolecular science to integrative biology, genetics, regenerative biology, neuropharmacology, and even biological robots, all of which bring unease and hope coexist.

This book is both an answer and a question, a question and an answer to everything that matters to our lives and future generations.

David Jou

David Jou (Sitges, Barcelona, 1953) is professor of Physics at the Autonomus University of Barcelona. He has developed an extensive research activity in the laws of thermodynamics in irreversible processes. He has been awarded several times, among them the Rey Juan Carlos I award (1986), the Narcís Monturiol award (1991) and the award of the City of Barcelona (1993). His vast number or articles have been published in many national and international specialized journals. He has, also, a prestigious career as a Catalan language poet and some of his books have been translated to many languages. An Introduction to Quantum World was his first book in Pasado & Presente. After that we published The Maze of Time. Time and Memory in Life and the Universe ( 2014) and more recently Material and Materialism (2015).