Quirky Quarks: A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics

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Preface Contents The Characters The Particles Measure for Measure I – Rocket Science Auroras Light Invisibility Cloaks The Doppler Shift Lasers Vacuum and Air Pressure Fluid Flow and Turbulences Why Does a Plane Fly? Surface Tension Non-Newtonian Fluid Rocket Maneuvers Kepler’s Laws Conservation Laws The Voyager Probes Birth of the Solar System Genesis of the Moon Extrasolar Planets II – The Cosmos Spectral Classification Red Giants and Planetary Nebulae Supernovae White Dwarfs and Type Ia Supernovae Black Holes The Big Bang Timeline of Our Universe The Cosmic Microwave Background Large Scale Structure of the Universe Galaxy Types Relative Space and Time The Theory of General Relativity Curved Space Time Gravitational Lensing Dark Matter Dark Energy III – Quantum Mechanics Wave-Particle Duality The Double Slit Experiment Heisenberg Uncertainty Schrödinger’s Cat Feynman Paths Quantum Tunneling Radioactive Decay Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays Nuclear Fusion Superconductors Superfluidity Spin Entanglement Quantum Teleportation Qubits IV – Particle Physics Atoms vs. Elementary Particles The Neutrino Standard Model of Elementary Particles Antimatter Particle Decays Feynman Diagrams The Strong Interaction The Weak Interaction E=mc² The Higgs Mechanism The Structure of the Proton Particle Accelerators Particle Detectors Cosmic Radiation Neutrino Oscillations Radiation Therapy V – Beyond the Boundaries of Our Knowledge Exotic Matter Before the Big Bang Quantum Gravity Black Hole Evaporation Wormholes Tachyons Warp Drive Supersymmetry String Theory Extra Dimensions Many Worlds The End of the Universe