The first cosmology : the golden age of the gods -- The first cosmological revolution : the Copernican theory -- The second cosmological revolution : Hubble and the Big Bang -- The third revolution begins : the universe amok -- The music of the spheres : the cosmic microwave background -- The dark universe : what's the matter with matter? -- Darker still : the enigma of exotic dark matter -- The Big Bang in our backyard : the birth of baryons -- The good nus : the exotic neutrino -- Supersymmetry : fearlessly framing the laws of matter -- Seeing the invisible : MACHOs,

WIMPs, and illuminating the darkest regions of the universe -- The deepest mystery in physics : L, the vacuum, and inflation -- Wrinkles inspacetime : gravitational waves and the early universe -- Beyond the third revolution : voyage to the ends of time -- Appendix A : tired light retired -- Appendix B : Where does matter come from? -- Appendix C : Nobel prizes in physics, past and future -- Appendix D : some experiments to watch.