Contents

Preface

List of Figures

About the Author

PART I ATOM AND VOID

1. The Quiet Citadel

2. Things-in-Themselves

3. An Impression of Force

4. The Sceptical Chymists

PART II MASS AND ENERGY

5. A Very Interesting Conclusion

6. Incommensurable

7. The Fabric

8. In the Heart of Darkness

PART III WAVE AND PARTICLE

9. An Act of Desperation

10. The Wave Equation

11. The Only Mystery

12. Mass Bare and Dressed

PART IV FIELD AND FORCE

13. The Symmetries of Nature

14. The Goddamn Particle

15. The Standard Model

16. Mass Without Mass

Epilogue

Endnotes

Glossary

Select Bibliography

Publisher’s Acknowledgements

Index