Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm Book

	Constructing this world, and others	1
1	The world's numerical recipe	3
2	Analysis and synthesis 1 : what matters for matter	10
3	Analysis and synthesis 2 : universal characteristics	16
4	Analysis and synthesis 3 : cosmic groundwork	22
5	Analysis and synthesis 4 : limits and supplements	28
	Musing on mechanics	35
6	Whence the force of F = ma? 1 : culture shock	37
7	Whence the force of F = ma? 2 : rationalization	43
8	Whence the force of F = ma? 3 : cultural diversity	49
	Making light of mass	55
9	The origin of mass	57
10	Mass without mass 1 : most of matter	72
11	Mass without mass 2 : the medium is the mass-age	76
	QCD exposed	81
12	QCD made simple	83
13	10[superscript 12] degrees in the shade	100
14	Back to basics at ultrahigh temperatures	114
	Breathless at the heights	121
15	Scaling mount planck 1 : a view from the bottom	123
16	Scaling mount planck 2 : base camp	128
17	Scaling mount planck 3 : is that all there is?	133
	At sea in the depths	137
18	What is quantum theory?	140
19	Total relativity : March 2004	144
20	Life's parameters	150
	Once and future history	155
21	The Dirac equation	157
22	Fermi and the elucidation of matter	191
23	The standard model transcended	211
24	Masses and molasses	216
25	In search of symmetry lost	223
26	From 'not wrong' to (maybe) right	250
27	Unification of couplings	253
	Methods of our madness	277
28	The social benefit of high energy physics	279
29	When words fail	285
30	Why are there analogies between condensed matter and particle theory?	288
31	The persistence of ether	293
32	Reaching bottom, laying foundations	298
	Inspired, irritated, inspired	305
33	What did Bohr do?	307
34	Dreams of a final theory	314
35	Shadows of the mind	318
36	The inflationary universe	323
37	Is the sky made from pi?	327
	Big ideas	331
38	Quantum field theory	333
39	Some basic aspects of fractional quantum numbers	359
	Grand occasions	385
40	From concept to reality to vision	387
41	Nobel biography	396
42	Asymptotic freedom : from paradox to paradigm	400
43	Advice to students	430
	Breaking into verse	433
44	Virtual particles	435
45	Gluon rap	436
46	Reply in sonnet form	437
47	From beneath an e-Avalanche	438
48	Frog sonnet	439
49	Archaeopteryx	440
	Another dimension	441
	Nobel blog : a year in the life	442