ABSTRACT
The material of the previous part of the book, once put in proper order, becomes the storyline of the universe. How can the tiniest subatomic particles tell us about the vast panorama of the cosmos? How is it that the ultimate “whole” can be understood in terms of its paltry “parts?” If posed as philosophical questions, we may never know the answers. But physics, in its quest for increasingly fundamental relations among natural phenomena, has been able to give a rational and observationally confirmed answer to these questions.
