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I.
The Storyteller

Between a story and the world
Dreams of Rationalism
Light on Light
Light-Quanta
The Principle of Least Action
Feynman Meets Dirac
Feynman's Sum Over Stories
Second Quantisation
The Storyteller's Paradigm

II.
The Beauty of the Tiger

Natural Beauty
Symmetry in Physics
Hidden Symmetry
Conservation Laws
Relativity
Gauge Symmetry and Economics
Supersymmetry
Universal Symmetry
Particle Permutations
Event symmetry

III.
In a Grain of Sand

Discrete Matter
Unification
Quantum Gravity
Einstein's Geometrodynamics
The Planck Scale
The Best Attempts
Supergravity
Canonical Quantum Gravity
Non-Commutative Geometry
Black Hole Thermodynamics
Is There a Theory of Everything?

IV.
Is Space-Time Discrete?

Seeking the ultimate indivisible
Lattice Theories
Lattice Quantum Field Theory
Lattice Gauge Theories
Fading Motivations
It from Bit
Cellular Automata
Discreteness in Quantum Gravity
Lattice Quantum Gravity
Pregeometry
The Metaphysics of Space-Time
So is it or isn't it?

V.
What About Causality?

Causality in the news
Causality in Physics
A Block Universe
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Could the Universe be Gold?
Anti-thermodynamic light from the future
A Crystal Ball
Mixing or Meeting
Matter and Anti-matter
Black Holes, White Holes.
The Shape of Things to Come
Wider Perspectives
Occam's Razor
An Inhomogeneous Universe
Is The Big Bang a White Hole?
Time Travel

VI.
The Superstring Supermystery

Everything or Nothing?
Why String Theory?
All Is String
Duality
Black Strings
String Symmetry

VII.
The Principle of
Event Symmetry

The Bucket of Dust
The Universal Lattice
Witten's Puzzle
Space-Time and Soap Films
Permutation City
More Symmetry
Identical Particles
Clifford's Legacy
Back to Superstrings
Event-Symmetric Physics

VIII.
Event-Symmetric
String Theory

Leap Frog
Eight Reasons to Believe
String Inspired Symmetry
Discrete String Theory
Event-Symmetric Open String Theory
Event-Symmetric Closed String Theory
Algebraic String Theory

IX.
Is String Theory
in Knots?

Top - Chap.9
Strings and knots
The Symmetric Group to the Braid Group
A String made of anyons?
Multiple Quantisation
Penrose Spin Networks
What is Quantisation?
The Supersymmetric ladder
The ladder of dimensions

X.
The Theory of Theories

The Theory That Flies
The Nature of Nature
Can we ask why?
Many Anthropic Principles
Is the Anthropic Principle Enough?
Universality
The Theory of Theories
I think therefore I am...


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