My part in the story of "Heck" took more than a year. While my fingerprints (mixed with those of my co- # authors ) are all over the final version of the book, my most direct contributions were Chapter 5, "Finding Reality"; Chapters 6 and 15, "What the Heck's the Higgs?" Parts 1 and 2; and chapter 7, "A Sky of Shadows". I recently shared this for # DarkMatterDay , but you…