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About the Title | p. ix |
Reader's Guide | p. xi |
The Origin of Mass | |
Getting to It | p. 3 |
Newton's Zeroth Law | p. 11 |
Einstein's Second Law | p. 18 |
What Matters for Matter | p. 22 |
The Hydra Within | p. 26 |
The Bits Within the Its | p. 32 |
Symmetry Incarnate | p. 58 |
The Grid (Persistence of Ether) | p. 73 |
Computing Matter | p. 112 |
The Origin of Mass | p. 128 |
Music of the Grid: A Poem in Two Equations | p. 133 |
Profound Simplicity | p. 135 |
The Feebleness of Gravity | |
Is Gravity Feeble? Yes, in Practice | p. 145 |
Is Gravity Feeble? No, in Theory | p. 148 |
The Right Question | p. 151 |
A Beautiful Answer | p. 152 |
Is Beauty Truth? | |
Unification: The Siren's Song | p. 163 |
Unification: Through a Glass, Darkly | p. 177 |
Truthification | p. 182 |
Unification SUSY | p. 185 |
Anticipating a New Golden Age | p. 192 |
Epilogue: A Smooth Pebble, a Pretty Shell | p. 199 |
Acknowledgments | p. 205 |
Particles Have Mass, the World Has Energy | p. 207 |
The Multilayered, Multicolored Cosmic Superconductor | p. 211 |
From "Not Wrong" to (Maybe) Right | p. 217 |
Glossary | p. 221 |
Notes | p. 243 |
Illustration Credits | p. 259 |
Index | p. 261 |
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