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Acknowledgements

This project was casually started at Café Aktaion, looking at the old Castle of Corfu, during the recepton meeting of the Workshop on Connecting Insights in Fundamental Physics: Standard Model and Beyond, held in Corfu Island in the summer of 2019. So, we are greatly indebted to the organizer of this workshop, George Zoupanos, on the current atomic theory. He mentioned in the opening speech of the conference the stories of the ancient Greek philosophers, and even touched on the earlier story on Odyssey after the Trojan War, having lived here in Kanoni, Corfu, for 10 years before returning to his wife.

The first author thanks all the colleagues and students who have added to his knowledge of particle theory over the past 50 years. At an educational level, Simon Altmann was his tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford, as an undergraduate, John Clayton Taylor was his DPhil supervisor in Oxford as a postgraduate, and Yoichiro Nambu was his first postdoc mentor in Chicago. From all of these people he learned an enormous amount about physics. It was a unique opportunity to collaborate with Sheldon Glashow for over two decades during which they wrote 13 papers. Selected physicists who have taught him a lot include Gerard ’t Hooft, Lars Brink, Peter Goddard, Cecilia Jarlskog, Tom Kephart, Peter Minkowski, and Holger Nielsen. Apologies to the very many other physicists not explicitly mentioned but who nevertheless provided collegiality.

The second author deeply thanks Chong-Hyun Park who is an Academician on Greek Philosophy in Korea National Academy of Science. Dr. Park translated all of Plato’s Greek dialogues and provide a vivid view on the old Greek society. The narration on the Greek period in this book was carefully commented by their Greek colleague Emmanuel Paschos, probably the best physicist aware of the ancient stories of Greeks and the Dark Ages. On Catholitism, their friend Stephen Barr, the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, carefully commented on the initial narration on the Dark Ages. The second author also thanks the chief priest of a Korean Buddhist temple Yakcheon-Sa, Dr. Sung Ku Kim, for laboriously explaining the story of Buddha’s teaching. The authors also thank MooYoung Choi, A. Karpov, Young Duk Kim, Seo-Dong Shin, Kietae Rhie, Yannis Rizos, Jose Valle, and John Vergados for valuable suggestions. JEK’s deepest debt of gratitute is to Hyo Hee for safe advice and to Saem for drawing beautiful figures.