How did a single ‘genesis event’ create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How do atoms assemble–here on earth, and perhaps on additional worlds–into living beings intricate plenty of to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our world? This book explains new discoveries and offers remarkable insights into these fundamental questions. A couple of deep contacts between superstars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six quantities, imprinted in the ‘big bang,’ determine the fundamental features of our whole physical world. Furthermore, cosmic evolution is astonishingly sensitive towards the values of these numbers. If any one of them were ‘untuned,’ there could be no celebrities and no lifestyle. This realization offers a radically brand-new perspective on our universe, our place in it, and the type of physical laws.