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This interactive book aims to be useful and valuable to both those who know little about the grand description of our physical world and those who know a lot.

For the new student, let this guide be like a story — really, more like a storyboard — for making a movie about the physical laws of Nature.

You start with the ultimate question: Why is the speed of light constant?

Wow! That's a big question! You break it down to a series of 20 or so smaller questions and answers. How might these go together?

With that preview-overview in mind, you now tell your story with an imaginative mix of words and hundreds of images, with some 50 short videos, all organized around The Players, The Rules, The Subplot, The Plot, and The Conclusion. This is followed up with The Movie (review summary), a substantial Appendix, Links  and References, and interactive sketching and note taking widgets embedded throughout.

Without memorizing a single fact, you can experience and gain insight into the workings of Nature.

For the seasoned veteran student immersed in the Standard Model of Quantum Mechanics — matter, fields and exchange quanta; gluons, photons, gravitons, Higgs Bosons, W⁺W⁻Z°; fermions, bosons, leptons, baryons, hadrons; charge, mass and spin vectors; the strong, residual nuclear, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational interactions; the Planck Event Horizon, spinor rotation and much more — and searching to reconcile with General Relativity, this book is exactly what you want to bring fresh insights to that Ultimate Question: Why is the speed of light constant? 

This question is so important because it goes directly to the heart of the matter — all matter, all energy — including Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

A unified and harmonious vision of the cosmos awaits you.