Prologue: The journey begins
Traveling in the quantum field
Going subatomic: the electron
Expedition III: The Isle of Leptons, and roads onward
Invariance and relativity
The electron's overweight siblings
Rest stop. Gravity: a distant diversion. The weakest force ; Planes and merry-go-rounds ; Different, yet somehow, the same ; Ripples in the space-time continuum
Expedition IV: Great train journeys
Protons, neutrons, and the nucleus
Quarks and the strong force
Expedition V: The Isles by air
Parity, helicity, and chirality
Expedition VI: The remote neutrino sector
The standard model is dead
long live the standard model!
Expedition VII: Into Bosonia
Symmetry and conservation
Virtual particles and the defense against infinity
Electroweak symmetry breaking
Expedition VIII: Far East
Sea monsters and dark matters
