Acknowledgments | |
Prologue: Journey to the Heart of the Large Hadron Collider | |
Introduction: The Machinery of Perfection | |
The Secrets of Creation | |
The Quest for a Theory of Everything | |
Striking Gold: Rutherford's Scattering Experiments | |
Smashing Successes: The First Accelerators | |
A Compelling Quartet: The Four Fundamental Forces | |
A Tale of Two Rings: The Tevatron and the Super Proton Synchrotron | |
Deep in the Heart of Texas: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider | |
Crashing by Design: Building the Large Hadron Collider | |
Denizens of the Dark: Resolving the Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy | |
The Brane Drain: Looking for Portals to Higher Dimensions | |
Microscopic Black Holes: A Boon to Science or a Boom for the World? | |
Conclusion: The Future of High-Energy Physics: The International Linear Collider and Beyond | |
Notes | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |
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