2. How Small Is Small? How Fast Is Fast?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. Beneath the Surface of Things 1
5. 2. How Small Is Small? How Fast Is Fast? 8
6. 3. Meet the Leptons 29
7. 4. The Rest of the Extended Family 67
8. 5. Quantum Lumps 92
9. 6. Quantum Jumps 112
10. 7. Social and Antisocial Particles 131
11. 8. Clinging to Constancy 153
12. 9. Waves and Particles 184
13. 10. Pushing the Limits 220
14. Appendix A: Measurements and Magnitudes 249
15. Appendix B: The Particles 252
16. Appendix C: Going for the Gold 257
17. Appendix D: Quantum Questions 259
18. Index 283