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Ideas, theories, experiments, and unanswered questions in particle physics, explained (with anecdotes) for the general reader.

Table of Contents

1 Atoms and Beyond
2 The Indivisible and the Divisible
3 Everything is Relative
4 The Certainty of Chance
5 The Family Grows
6 Energized Particles
7 Three Quarks for Muster Mark!
8 May the Force be with Us!
9 The World Through the Looking-Glass
10 The Most Beautiful Theory in the World
11 The Color of Elementary Particles
12 The November Revolution
13 Weak, but Very Influential
14 The Chameleon
15 Seeing the Invisible
16 United You Win
17 Dream, the Unknown, Adventure
18 Be Curious

About the Author

Antonio Ereditato is Director of the University of Bern's Laboratory for High Energy Physics. He is the former leader of OPERA, a large multinational collaborative study of neutrino physics at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and he participated in the ATLAS experiments at CERN that led to the detection of the Higgs boson (the "God particle") and in several large neutrino projects including T2K in Japan and MicroBooNE and DUNE in the United Sates. He is the author of The State of the Art of Neutrino Physics.