About the book: 1985 / The book by the famous Italian physicist and theorist T. Regge popularly talks about the problems and achievements of modern physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The author easily and naturally transfers the reader from the world of elementary particles to the world of scattering galaxies, being able to identify the commonality of natural phenomena that, at first glance, are far from each other. Paradoxes of the theory of relativity and gravity, black holes and the evolution of the Universe, the structure of the atom and superconductivity - this is the range of considered topics The last chapters of the book are dedicated to the great scientists: Galileo, Maxwell, Einstein and Gödel. There is also a short, humorous, fantastic story about the creation of a perpetual motion machine. The book awakens the imagination, written in lively, figurative language, without the use of mathematical apparatus.