The title of my Phd Thesis was:
Dynamics of Neutron Stars and Binaries in Globular Clusters
or, Ménages à trois: revitalizing burnt out degenerates through partner swapping
This was not the best PhD thesis title ever, by a long shot.
The sub-title was actually an "in-joke", it was the working title of our Nature paper (Nature editors reserve the right to retitle papers for their audience, so a working title was good to have).
When I submitted, the sub-title was printed on the inside cover, and the Caltech Graduate Office, in a payback for many hours of Graduate Student Council liasion work, made sure the official title was in the library entry and that the commencement listing included the sub-title.
Cool.
However, the best PhD thesis title I have seen was Mark Adler's The persistence of charm in the relentless decay of beauty..
Cryptic, cute, accurate and succinct.
Anyone know of a better one?
I'd add the additional subtitle to your paper: "Would you like to swing with a star?"
I don't know...I'm fairly partial to my supervisor's Honours Thesis title:
"Parental consumption of nestling feces: good food or sound economics?"