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| Introduction: About Quarks, Red Giants, and Why This Book Got Written | |
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| A Boy with Something on His Mind | |
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| Time on Replay | |
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| Electrifying Thoughts and Magnetic Reasoning | |
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| Feature: Three Charged Americans | |
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| The M. and M.'s of Science | |
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| Feature: If You Want Something, Go for It! | |
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| Invisible Bits of Electricity | |
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| Feature: Charging on-to e | |
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| Smaller than Atoms? Subatomic? Is This a Joke? | |
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| Nobel Marie | |
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| Mysterious Rays | |
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| Making Waves | |
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| Five Papers | |
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| Seeing the (Photon) Light | |
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| Feature: Blue Skies Smiling at Us | |
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| Molecules Move | |
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| Getting the Picture Right | |
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| Getting Atom | |
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| Feature: Atoms Go from Weight to Number (Periodic Table) | |
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| Feature: In the Elemental Grocery Store | |
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| Still Shooting Alpha Particles | |
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| Bohr Taking Quantum Leaps | |
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| An American Tracks Photons; a Frenchman Nails Matter | |
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| What's Uncertain? Everything, Says Heisenberg | |
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| A Cat, Quarks, and Other Quantum Critters | |
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| Feature: Up and Atom: A Review of Atomic Theory Basics | |
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| Smashing Atoms | |
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| Chemistry, Charisma, and Peace | |
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| Feature: What's in a Bond? | |
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| Energy Equals Mass Times the Square of the Speed of Light or E=mc[superscript 2] | |
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| On the Way to War (a List of Happenings) | |
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| The Fission Vision | |
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| Presidential Power | |
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| Manhattan on a Mesa | |
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| Quantum Electrodynamics? Surely You're Joking | |
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| Those Relatives: Galileo and Albert | |
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| Relativity: It's About Time | |
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| Feature: Light Does Its Own Thing | |
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| An Event? To a Physicist It's Not a Party | |
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| Feature: Math Matters: Euclidean and Non | |
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| Timely Dimensions | |
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| A Man in a Red Hat | |
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| The Paradox of the Twins | |
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| Relative Gravity | |
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| Warps in Spacetime | |
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| Does It Change? Or Is It Changeless? | |
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| Expanding Times | |
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| An Expanding Universe | |
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| A Luminous Indian | |
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| Explosive? And How! | |
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| Singular Black Holes | |
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| Gravity Waves? | |
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| Feature: May the Interaction Be with You | |
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| A Singular Bang with a Background | |
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| Inflation? This Chapter Is Not About Economics! | |
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| Feature: Toe Be or Not Toe Be | |
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| Entanglement? Locality? Are We Talking Science? | |
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| Super Stars | |
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| Feature: Experts on the Dark Side | |
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| A Surprising Information00389Universe | |
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| Is Anyone Out There? | |
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| This Is the Last Chapter, but It's Not the End | |
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| Read On | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Index | |
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| Permissions | |