Atom. Big bang. DNA. Natural selection. All these ideas and theories made a real revolution in natural science, although at first they were rejected by official science. And this has happened more than once. The famous scientist and popularizer of science Michael Brooks talks about the latest theories that could very soon turn our understanding of the world: here are the latest hypotheses about the origin of the Universe, about the illusory nature of time, quantum biology and the roots of consciousness, and also about zombies and chimeras, about how different man is from animals, and a woman is from a man.