Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The True Movers & Shakers: The Forces of Nature -- 3 The Great Reawakening: The Modern Physics Revolution -- 4 The Marriage of Relativity & Quantum Theory: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory -- 5 Patterns in Nature: The Fundamental Building Blocks -- 6 Mathematical Patterns: Lie Groups -- 7 The World Within: Internal Symmetries -- 8 Physics by Pure Thought: Gauge Theory -- 9 The Current Paradigm: Hidden Symmetry, the Standard Model & the Higgs Boson -- 10 Into the Unknown: What Lies Ahead -- Appendix: Exponential Notation -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.