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Introduction: About Quarks, Red Giants, and Why This Book Got Written | p. viii |
A Boy with Something on His Mind | p. 1 |
Time on Replay | p. 10 |
Electrifying Thoughts and Magnetic Reasoning | p. 18 |
Feature: Three Charged Americans | p. 26 |
The M. and M.'s of Science | p. 28 |
Feature: If You Want Something, Go for It! | p. 32 |
Invisible Bits of Electricity | p. 36 |
Feature: Charging on-to e | p. 48 |
Smaller than Atoms? Subatomic? Is This a Joke? | p. 50 |
Nobel Marie | p. 54 |
Mysterious Rays | p. 58 |
Making Waves | p. 70 |
Five Papers | p. 78 |
Seeing the (Photon) Light | p. 86 |
Feature: Blue Skies Smiling at Us | p. 96 |
Molecules Move | p. 98 |
Getting the Picture Right | p. 104 |
Getting Atom | p. 114 |
Feature: Atoms Go from Weight to Number (Periodic Table) | p. 122 |
Feature: In the Elemental Grocery Store | p. 126 |
Still Shooting Alpha Particles | p. 128 |
Bohr Taking Quantum Leaps | p. 136 |
An American Tracks Photons; a Frenchman Nails Matter | p. 144 |
What's Uncertain? Everything, Says Heisenberg | p. 150 |
A Cat, Quarks, and Other Quantum Critters | p. 158 |
Feature: Up and Atom: A Review of Atomic Theory Basics | p. 166 |
Smashing Atoms | p. 170 |
Chemistry, Charisma, and Peace | p. 178 |
Feature: What's in a Bond? | p. 186 |
Energy Equals Mass Times the Square of the Speed of Light or E=mc[superscript 2] | p. 190 |
On the Way to War (a List of Happenings) | p. 192 |
The Fission Vision | p. 204 |
Presidential Power | p. 220 |
Manhattan on a Mesa | p. 236 |
Quantum Electrodynamics? Surely You're Joking | p. 254 |
Those Relatives: Galileo and Albert | p. 260 |
Relativity: It's About Time | p. 266 |
Feature: Light Does Its Own Thing | p. 272 |
An Event? To a Physicist It's Not a Party | p. 276 |
Feature: Math Matters: Euclidean and Non | p. 282 |
Timely Dimensions | p. 284 |
A Man in a Red Hat | p. 290 |
The Paradox of the Twins | p. 296 |
Relative Gravity | p. 302 |
Warps in Spacetime | p. 312 |
Does It Change? Or Is It Changeless? | p. 322 |
Expanding Times | p. 326 |
An Expanding Universe | p. 334 |
A Luminous Indian | p. 340 |
Explosive? And How! | p. 346 |
Singular Black Holes | p. 356 |
Gravity Waves? | p. 370 |
Feature: May the Interaction Be with You | p. 378 |
A Singular Bang with a Background | p. 382 |
Inflation? This Chapter Is Not About Economics! | p. 392 |
Feature: Toe Be or Not Toe Be | p. 403 |
Entanglement? Locality? Are We Talking Science? | p. 406 |
Super Stars | p. 414 |
Feature: Experts on the Dark Side | p. 424 |
A Surprising Information00389Universe | p. 428 |
Is Anyone Out There? | p. 438 |
This Is the Last Chapter, but It's Not the End | p. 450 |
Read On | p. 456 |
Picture Credits | p. 457 |
Index | p. 460 |
Permissions | p. 468 |
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