1. Beneath the Surface of Things

2. How Small Is Small? How Fast Is Fast?

3. Meet the Leptons

4. The Rest of the Extended Family

5. Quantum Lumps

6. Quantum Jumps

7. Social and Antisocial Particles

8. Clinging to Constancy

9. Waves and Particles

10. Pushing the Limits



Appendix A: Measurements and Magnitudes

Appendix B: The Particles

Appendix C: Going for the Gold

Index

Kenneth W. Ford, retired director of the American Institute of Physics, is coauthor of Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics.

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