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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: World of Small Things
1.1 How Are Elements Broken Down into Protons, Electrons and Neutrons?
1.2 If We Cannot See Electrons and Protons, How Can We Be Sure They Exist?
1.3 What Is a Neutrino?
1.4 What Exactly Is the 'Spin' of Subatomic Particles Such as Electrons?
1.5 What Happens On a Molecular or Atomic Level When Two Objects Touch?
1.6 Do Virtual Particles in Quantum Mechanics Really Exist?
1.7 Why Isn't the Dual Wave/Particle Nature of the Quantum Mechanical World Present in the Macroscopic World?
1.8 What Is Quantum Mechanics Good for?
1.9 What Is Known About Tachyons?
Section 2: Doing the Math
2.1 Are Mathematicians Finally Satisfied with Andrew Wiles's Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?
2.2 Has Chaos Theory Found Any Useful Application in the Social Sciences?
2.3 What Is Game Theory and What Are Some of its Applications?
2.4 Can Math Beat Financial Markets?
2.5 How Can a Poll of Only a Thousand Americans Represent Millions of People?
2.6 What Is Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
2.7 What Is the Origin of Zero?
2.8 What Is Pi and How Did It Originate?
2.9 What Does Bayes's Theorem Have To Do with the Existence of God?
2.10 What Is Russell's Paradox?
Section 3: Everyday Physics
3.1 How Exactly Does Light Transform into Heat?
3.2 What Is the Physical Process by which a Mirror Reflects Light Rays?
3.3 Is Glass a Supercooled Liquid?
3.4 After a Major Explosion, How Does a Mushroom Cloud Form?
3.5 Does Ball Lightning Really Exist?
Section 4: Beyond Newton’s Apple
4.1 Is There Such a Thing as Anti-gravity?
4.2 How Does a Flame Behave in Zero Gravity?
4.3 Has Anyone Ever Measured the Speed of Gravity?
4.4 Would You Fall All the Way Through a Theoretical Hole in the Earth?
4.5 What Is a 'Fictitious Force'?
Section 5: Stranger Things
5.1 What Is Antimatter?
5.2 What Is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
5.3 What Is the Casimir Effect?
5.4 What Is the 'Zero Point Energy' in Quantum Physics?
5.5 What Are Josephson Junctions?
5.6 Is It Possible for a Human Being to Travel through Time?
5.7 Is Time Quantized?
5.8 Do the Bubbles Made by Ultrasound in Water Produce Nuclear Fusion?
5.9 Is Cold Fusion Possible?
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