Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics

Longing for the Harmonies
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
I. Uniformity of Parts
	Prelude I: Reply to Keats (on the Rainbow)
	1. The Nature of Color: We Are All Color-blind
	2. Spectra: Music of the Spheres
	3. Earth-stuff and Star-stuff
		Rhapsody on N (The World Between)
II. Uniformity of Structure
	Prelude II: Radical Conservatism
	4. The Cosmic Order of Galaxies
		Doppler Shift
	5. Expansion and Uniformity
	6. Inferno and Afterglow
		Three Ages
III. Transformations
	Prelude III: Treiman’s Theorem
	7. New Star
	8. The Weak Interaction
		Ego and Survival
IV. Inevitability
	Prelude IV: Levels of Equilibrium
	9. Universal Chemistry
	10. Cooking with Gobar
	11. Explosions and Fluorescence
V. Quantal Reality
	Prelude V: In the First Circle
	12. Light as Waves
	13. Light as Lumps
	14. Laves
	15. Branching Worlds
		Frustration and Uncertainty
		A Quantum Lottery
VI. Radical Uniformity in Microcosm
	Prelude VI: Back to Pythagoras
	16. The Indistinguishable
	17. Fields
		Maxwell Redux
		Virtual Particles
VII. Transforming Principles
	Prelude VII: The Search for Depth
	18. Antimatter
	19. Quarks: A Peculiar Chemistry
	20. Colour
	21. Gluons
		How Asymptotic Freedom Discovered Me
	22. Asymptotic Freedom
		In Praise of QCD
VIII. Symmetry Lost and Symmetry Found
	Prelude VIII: Relative and Absolute
	23. Interchangeable Worlds
	24. More Perfect Worlds
	25. A Suggested Unity
		Coda: About the Table
	26. Salt Mine
	27. A Little Matter
IX. Radical Uniformity in Macrocosm
	Prelude IX: Genesis Machines
	28. Horizons
	29. Inflation
X. Quest
	Prelude X: No Firm Foundation
	30. Families
	31. Dark Matter
	32. Hidden Harmonies
Notes
Index