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| Prologue: Relaxing, Exciting, and Overstrung Physics | |
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| Shortcut | |
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| Not too Bad, Homo sapiens, But… | |
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| Reasons for Doubt: Something Is Rotten in the State of Physics | |
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| Galileo Would Freak Out! | |
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| A Quantum Leap in Measuring Devices: Why We Live in Fantastic Times | |
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| A Speedy Revolution | |
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| Why Cosmology Is Going the Wrong Way | |
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| Crossroads | |
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| The Basic Story | |
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| What Einstein Told Us about Gravity and Space-Time | |
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| Still a Mystery | |
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| Newton's Gravitational Constant: From England to the Edge of the Universe | |
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| The Riddle of Small Accelerations | |
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| Are Galaxies Really Just Big Planetary Systems? | |
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| Lost in the Dark | |
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| Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Invisible or All in Your Mind? | |
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| Precision in the Tea Leaves | |
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| Message from the Cosmic Microwave Background: How Much Is Just Noise? | |
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| Dead End | |
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| Muddy Water | |
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| The Cosmology of Dark Pixels in the First Dark Age: Giving Work to Supercomputers | |
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| Speculation Bubbles Rise | |
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| Expansion, Imagination, Inflation: Do We Know There Was a First Second? | |
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| Blacking Out | |
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| Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Quantum Gravity: Ecological Niches for Theorists | |
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| The Fianc�e You Won't Marry | |
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| The Standard Model of Particle Physics: How Playing with Mathematical Beauty Took Over Real Life | |
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| Chronicle of a Surprise Foretold | |
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| How Higgsteria Delayed the Bankruptcy of Particle Physics | |
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| New Dimensions in Nonsense Branes, Multiverses, and Other Supersicknesses: Physics Goes Nuts | |
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| Goodbye Science, Hello Religion | |
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| String Theory: How the Elite Became a Sect and a Mafia | |
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| Backing Up | |
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| Clear Water | |
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| Reason vs. Circular Logic: How Science Should Work | |
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| Welcome to Byzantium | |
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| Complications on Complications: How Physics Became a Junk Drawer | |
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| The First Wrong Turn | |
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| Deviation Decades Ago: Calculating Replaces Thinking | |
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| The Math Fallout | |
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| How Theoretical Fashions Impede Reflection | |
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| Big Science, Big Money, Big Bubbles | |
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| What's Wrong with the Physics Business | |
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| Outlook | |
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| Get Prepared for the Crash | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Thanks | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Literature | |
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| Index | |