| Preface | vii |
| 1. A Physicist on Madison Avenue | 3 |
| 2. Instruments of the Future, Traditions of the Past | 21 |
| 3. The Seven Arrows of Time | 48 |
| 4. The Measure of All Things | 60 |
| 5. On That Day, When the Earth Is Dissolved in Positrons... | 77 |
| 6. The Epoch of Observational Cosmology | 90 |
| 7. Alternative Cosmologies (with G.F.R. Ellis and Richard Matzner) | 101 |
| 8. Stranger Than Fiction: Cygnus X-3 (with David Aschman) | 118 |
| 9. The Ultimate Collider Antoni Akahito (Tony Rothman) | 133 |
| Index | 143 |