What is particle physics? (not in book)

Why did the author (George Smoot) leave particle physics for cosmology? (p 89) 

Did you know that in '70 George Smoot left MIT for Berkeley? (p 90)

Why did Luie Alverez (shown) win the Nobel Prize in 1968? (Not in book! question is on p 90, answer can be found using the Nobel Prize link on the web site)

Did You Know That (DYKT) Luie was quick to point out peoples errors, he worked on the Kennedy assassination, and came up with the dinosaur asteroid or comet extinction theory? (p 90)

What does HAPPE stand for? (p 91)     Why did Luie start HAPPE (p 91

Did the gov't stop funding accelerators? (p 91)

What happened to several of the first Balloons? (p 91)

What are three observations that support the big bang theory? (p 91)

Smoot was looking for a fourth, what was it? (p 91)

Does anti-matter really exist? (p 92)

What happens when anti-matter comes in contact with matter? (p 92)     What does this have to do with E= mc2? ( p92)

What is another name for antielectrons? (p 93)

What is the electric charge of anti-neutrons? (p 93)

Does every elementary particle have an anti-particle? (p 93)

DYKT Dirac proposed antimatter in 1929 as a consequence of merging special relativity and quantum mechanics? (p 93)

Explain the space-time mirror symmetry. (p 94)

Why wasn't Dirac able to test his theory of anti-matter immediately? (p 94)

DYKT the Texas SSC (p 94) never got built?

What are cosmic rays? (p 95)

Do many cosmic rays make it to the surface of the earth? (p 95)

What is a daughter particle? (p 95)

How does a cloud chamber detect high energy particles? (p 95)

Why was a magnetic field added to the chamber? (p 95)

How did Anderson know that a positron went through his cloud chamber? (p 96)

Where did it come from? (p 96)

How was the anti-proton discovered? (p 97)

What did the physicists predict about ratio of matter and antimatter created by the big bang? (p 97)

What is the ratio of matter and antimatter in the solar system. (p 97)

What was Alfven's explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry? (p 98, 99)

What does Alfven think about the big bang theory? (p 99)

What did he propose? (p 99) 

What is the leidenfrost effect and how does it explain why antimatter and matter would stay separated? (p 99)

Why does Alfven think that the galaxies are moving away from each other? (p 99)

Can we tell if a particular star is made of antimatter? (p 100)

What is one way the Alfven's theory could be tested? (p 100)

Why do you need to go high in the atmosphere to test it? (p 100)

Why would anti carbon nuclei prove the existence of anti-stars, but anti-helium wouldn't (p 101)

How did Smoot's cosmic ray detector work? (p 101, 102)

What was No. 26262? (p 103,4)

What did the Ballooning missions show? (p 109)

What is the "puzzling matter-antimatter asymmetry problem (p 110)

What was Sakharov's solution to the matter/antimatter problem? (p 110)

What two "givens" of particle physics need to be violated for Sakharov's theory to be correct? (p 111)

DYKT in '56 Val Fitch and Jim Cronin discovered that strange kaons violate CP symmetry at a level of on part in a billion.

What are GUT's? (p 111)

What do GUT's predict about the conservation of baryon number (p 111)