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Introduction | p. 3 |
The Gathering Storm | |
The First Shot | p. 17 |
The Dark Star | p. 25 |
Not Your Grandfather's Geometry | p. 50 |
"Einstein, Don't Tell God What to Do" | p. 76 |
Planck Invents a Better Yardstick | p. 111 |
In a Broadway Bar | p. 117 |
Energy and Entropy | p. 126 |
Wheeler's Boys, or How Much Information Can You Stuff in a Black Hole? | p. 143 |
Black Light | p. 157 |
Surprise Attack | |
How Stephen Lost His Bits and Didn't Know Where to Find Them | p. 179 |
The Dutch Resistance | p. 193 |
Who Cares? | p. 200 |
Stalemate | p. 211 |
Skirmish at Aspen | p. 225 |
Counterattack | |
The Battle of Santa Barbara | p. 233 |
Wait! Reverse the Rewiring | p. 265 |
Ahab in Cambridge | p. 271 |
The World as a Hologram | p. 290 |
Closing the Ring | |
Weapon of Mass Deduction | p. 309 |
Alice's Airplane, or The Last Visible Propeller | p. 354 |
Counting Black Holes | p. 366 |
South America Wins the War | p. 395 |
Nuclear Physics? You're Kidding! | p. 422 |
Humility | p. 433 |
Epilogue | p. 442 |
Acknowledgments | p. 449 |
Glossary | p. 451 |
Index | p. 457 |
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