Foreword
Part One: Small Things
Chapter 1: Breathing in Einstein
How we discovered everything is made of
atoms and that
atoms are mostly empty space
Chapter 2: Why God plays dice with the universe
How
we discovered that things in the world of atoms happen for no reason at all
Chapter 3: The schizophrenic atom
How an atom can be in many places at once
and do many
things at once
Chapter 4: Uncertainty and the limits of knowledge
Why we can never know all we would like to
know about
atoms and why this fact makes atoms
possible
Chapter 5: The telepathic universe
How atoms can influence each other
instantly even
when on opposite sides of the Universe
Chapter 6: Identicalness and the roots of diversity
How the bewildering variety of the
everyday world stems
from the fact that you cannot tattoo an
electron
Part Two: Big Things
Chapter 7: The death of space and time
How we discovered that light is the rock
on which the
universe is founded and time and space are
shifting sand
Chapter 8: E=mc2 and the weight of
sunshine
How we discovered that ordinary matter contains a million
times the destructive power of dynamite
Chapter 9: The force of gravity does not exist
How we discovered the truth about gravity
and came face
to face with black holes, wormholes and
time machines
Chapter 10: The ultimate rabbit out of a hat
How we learnt that the Universe has not
existed forever
but was born in a titanic explosion 13.7
billion years ago
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography