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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Jon Butterworth
Title Page
Dedication
A Note on the Maps
Prologue
Expedition I: Sea Legs
1: Setting Sail
2: The Ocean Wave …
3: … Or Particle?
4: Travelling in the Quantum Field
Expedition II: Atom Land
5: Atoms
6: Going Subatomic: The Electron
7: Nuclear Options
8: The Source of Chemistry
Expedition III: The Isle of Leptons, and Roads Onwards
9: Electromagnetism
10: Invariance and Relativity
11: The Good Ship Dirac
12: Spin and Antimatter
13: The Electron’s Overweight Siblings
Rest Stop: Gravity: A Distant Diversion
The Weakest Force
Planes and Roundabouts
Different, Yet Somehow the Same
Ripples in the Space–Time Continuum
Expedition IV: Great Train Journeys
14: Protons, Neutrons and the Nucleus
15: Hadrons
16: Quarks and the Strong Force
17: Life Beyond the Bridge
18: Flavours and Generations
Expedition V: The Isles by Air
19: The Weak Force
20: Parity, Helicity and Chirality
21: Mixed Messages
22: North from South
Expedition VI: The Remote Neutrino Sector
23: Massless Matter?
24: The Standard Model is Dead – Long Live the Standard Model!
25: Neutrino Badlands
Expedition VII: Into Bosonia
26: Symmetry and Conservation
27: Symmetry and Bosons
28: Virtual Particles and the Defence Against Infinity
29: Mass and Hidden Symmetry
30: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
31: Hunting the Higgs
Expedition VIII: Far East
32: Why Go?
33: Clues and Constraints
34: Sea Monsters and Dark Matters
35: Supersymmetry
36: Into Another Dimension?
37: Over the Edge
38: A Fifth Force
39: Into the Cosmos
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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