Contents

 

      Preface

  1  Dawn Patrol in Honolulu

  2  Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms

  3  Quantum Physics: The Multiverse of Parmenides

  4  Black Dots on a White Background: The Particle World

  5  Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unification

  6  From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry

  7  Birth of an Outlaw: The Neutrino

  8  Nuclear Decays a Thousand Meters Underground

  9  New Physics Is Falling from the Skies

10  Cosmic Connections

11  Neutrinos: Key to the Universe

12  Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes

13  Einstein’s Heritage: What Is Time?

14  How to Build a Time Machine

15  Against Hawking and the Timekeepers

16  Into the Wilderness of the Terascale

17  Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates

      Notes

      Further Reading

      Acknowledgments

      Index