Contents -- Preface -- 1. Dawn Patrol in Honolulu -- 2. Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms -- 3. Quantum Physics: The Multiverse of Parmenides -- 4. Black Dots on a White Background: The Particle World -- 5. Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unification -- 6. From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry -- 7. Birth of an Outlaw: The Neutrino -- 8. Nuclear Decays a Thousand Meters Underground -- 9. New Physics Is Falling from the Skies -- 10. Cosmic Connections -- 11. Neutrinos: Key to the Universe -- 12. Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes -- 13. Einstein's Heritage: What Is Time? -- 14. How to Build a Time Machine -- 15. Against Hawking and the Timekeepers -- 16. Into the Wilderness of the Terascale -- 17. Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.