Table of Contents
Introduction The End 1
Chapter 1 Glowing with Pride 5
Chapter 2 Bits and Pieces 17
Chapter 3 Aristocrats, Bombs and Pollen 29
Chapter 4 Taming the Beast 41
Chapter 5 Things Get Even Weirder … Again 55
Chapter 6 The Box and the Pussycat 65
Chapter 7 The World is an Illusion 73
Chapter 8 Quantum Must Die 81
Chapter 9 Teleportation, Time Machines and Twirling 93
Chapter 10 Quantum Mechanics Proves I am Batman 105
Chapter 11 Far Afield 117
Chapter 12 Lines and Wiggles 127
Chapter 13 Particle Physics Gets Jacked 143
Chapter 14 Honey, Where's My Higgs? 157
Chapter 15 The Trouble with G 175
Timeline of Quantum and Particle Physics 185
Appendix I A Closer Look at Spin 191
Appendix II Solving Schrödinger 195
Appendix III Einstein's Bicycle 199
Appendix IV Taming Infinity 203
Appendix V Paint with All the Colours of the Quark 207
Acknowledgements 211
Notes 215
Index 223