CONTENTS -- DEAR READER -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERTURE -- Part I THE JOURNEY BEGINS -- Chapter 1 About Questions and Answers -- Lightbulb Interlude -- Chapter 2 The Matter We Know - Properties and Principles -- 1. The Science of Elementary Particles -- 2. General Properties of Particles - A Preliminary Look -- 3. Particles in Motion -- Chapter 3 The Relativity of Space and Time -- 1. The Principle -- 2. Electromagnetic Waves -- 3. Space and Time -- 4. Energy and Momentum -- Interlude The "Illions" and the "Illionths" -- Chapter 4 The Quantum Properties of Nature - Part One -- 1. Classical Particles and Waves -- 2. Quantum Objects and Indeterminacy -- Chapter 5 The Quantum Properties of Nature - Part Two -- 1. Quantum Particles and Uncertainties -- 2. Quantization -- 3. Quantum Fields -- Chapter 6 Quantum Mechanical Reality -- 1. Battle of the Giants -- 2. The Triumph of Quantum Mechanics -- 3. Quantum Mechanics and Measurement -- Chapter 7 The Particles of Matter -- 1. Seeking the Structure of Protons and Neutrons -- 2. Strongly Interacting Matter Particles - The Hadrons -- 3. Matter Particles with no Strong Interactions - The Leptons -- Chapter 8 The Basic Interactions -- 1. Introducing the Interactions -- 2. The Gauge Bosons of the Interactions -- 3. The "Reach" or Range of the Interactions -- Part II PARTICLE SYMMETRIES -- Chapter 9 Spacetime Symmetries -- 1. Symmetry at an Art Exhibit -- 2. Generators and Conservation Laws -- 3. Intertwining Rotations -- About Whimsy -- Chapter 10 "Internal" Symmetries - Isotopic Spin -- 1. Conservation Laws and Symmetry -- 2. Welcome to Flavor Space -- Chapter 11 Particle Flavors -- 1. Hypercharge (Y) and the Group U(1) -- 2. Strangeness (S) -- 3. Baryon Number (B) -- 4. Lepton Number (L).

5. Recollections of Conserved Numbers and Associated Flavor Symmetries -- Chapter 12 A Larger Flavor Symmetry - Entrance to The Land of Quarks -- 1. A Historical Note: The Periodic Scheme of The Elements -- 2. Flavor SU(3) and the Periodic Scheme of the Hadrons -- 3. Entering the Land of Quarks -- Part III ON TO THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND -- Chapter 13 About Gauge Theories -- 1. Their "Local" Property -- 2. Gauge Bosons and the Interactions -- 3. The Ideal Vacuum and Renormalization -- 4. What Are the Gauges in the Gauge Theories? -- Chapter 14 The Strong Interaction - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) -- 1. The Exclusion Principle Mystery -- 2. Color SU(3) - The Gauge Theory of Quantum Chromodynamics -- 3. A New Phase of Matter -- 4. More Exotica -- Chapter 15 The Weak Interaction - The Foot-Hills -- 1. Beta Decays -- 2. The Other Weak Interactions -- 3. Handedness Time Reversal and Antimatter -- 4. Range Strength and Mass -- Chapter 16 The Electroweak Interaction and The Standard Model -- 1. Higgs Magic -- 2. The Glorious Gauge Theory - The Standard Model -- Chapter 17 Above and Beyond -- 1. Neutrino Mass and "Oscillations" -- 2. Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) -- 3. The Early Universe -- 4. Superdreams -- 5. Large Extra Dimensions -- 6. Have We Reached Bottom? -- A Reconstruction of THE ORIGIN OF THE PARTICLES -- Part IV THE EXPERIMENTS - EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY -- Chapter 18 The Role of Experiments and Experimentalists -- 1. What is a Scientific Theory? -- 2. And What in the World is an Experimentalist? -- 3. The Importance of Confirmation of Discoveries and of Error Estimation -- Chapter 19 The Experimental Connection -- 1. A Preliminary: Energy Units for Atomic and Subatomic Considerations -- 2. "Scatterings" and Decays.

3. The Scattering "Cross Section" - A Direct Connection Between Theory and Experiment -- 4. Particle "Resonances" -- 5. "Resonances" and Decay Widths -- Chapter 20 Particle Accelerators and Detectors -- 1. Why Accelerate Particles? -- 2. Accelerator Types -- 3. The Basics of Particle Detection -- 4. Large Hybrid Detectors -- 5. Important Experimental Concerns -- FINALE -- EPILOGUE -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.