Index

Table of Contents
Prologue Physics for poets 3

Introduction That thing we do 13

1 Tennyson's thermodynamic solution 33

2 Grand unified theories, or who's got GUTs? 71

3 The reign of force 113

4 A far better rest : equilibrium and entropy in A tale of two cities 151

5 Bleak house : the novel as engine 187

6 Bodies in heat : demons, women, and emergent order 225

Epilogue 259

App "Report on Tait's lecture on force - B.A., 1876" by James Clerk Maxwell 263

Notes 265

References 307

Index 321