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Titulo: Motion Mountain

Autor: Christoph Schiller

Preface 20

1. An appetizer 23

First Part : Classical Physics – How Do Things and Images Move?

Chapter I Galilean Motion 28

2. Why should we care about motion? 28

3. Galilean physics – motion in everyday life 40

4. Global descriptions of motion: the simplicity of complexity 158

5. From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion 239

Chapter II Special Relativity 249

6. Maximumspeed, observers at rest, andmotion of light 249

Chapter III Gravitation and Relativity 319

7. Maximum force: general relativity in one statement 319

8. The new ideas on space, time and gravity 344

9. Motion in general relativity – bent light and wobbling vacuum 362

10. Why can we see the stars? – Motion in the universe 402

11. Black holes – falling forever 440

12. Does space differ from time? 454

13. General relativity in ten points – a summary for the layman 460

Chapter IV Classical Electrodynamics 478

14. Liquid electricity, invisible fields and maximum speed 478

15. What is light? 516

16. Charges are discrete – the limits of classical electrodynamics 545

17. Electromagnetic effects and challenges 547

18. Classical physics in a nutshell – one and a half steps out of three 568

Intermezzo The Brain, Language and the Human Condition 584

Second Part : Quantum Theory – What Is Matter? What Are Interactions?

Chapter V Quanta ofL ight and Matter 656

19. Minimum action – quantum theory for poets and lawyers 656

20. Light – the strange consequences of the quantum of action 668

21. Motion of matter – beyond classical physics 685

22. Colours and other interactions between light and matter 702

Chapter VI Permutation ofP articles 719

23. Are particles like gloves? 719

24. Rotations and statistics – visualizing spin 727

Chapter VII Details ofQ uantum Theory and Electromagnetism 739

25. Superpositions and probabilities – quantum theory without ideology 739

26. Applied quantum mechanics – life, pleasure and the means to achieve them 761

27. Quantum electrodynamics – the origin of virtual reality 796

28. Quantum mechanics with gravitation – the first approach 809

Chapter VIII Inside the Nucleus 836

29. The structure of the nucleus – the densest clouds 836

30. The strong nuclear interaction and the birth of matter 857

31. The weak nuclear interaction and the handedness of nature 868

32. The standard model of elementary particle physics – as seen on television 872

33. Grand unification – a simple dream 873

Chapter IX Advanced Quantum Theory (Not yet Available) 879

Chapter X Quantum Physics in a Nutshell 880

Intermezzo Bacteria, Flies and Knots 896

Third Part : Motion Without Motion – What Are Space, Time and

Particles?

Chapter XI General Relativity Versus Quantum Mechanics 918

34. Does matter differ from vacuum? 920

35. Nature at large scales – is the universe something or nothing? 952

36. The physics of love – a summary of the first two and a half parts 975

37. Maximum force and minimum distance: physics in limit statements 985

38. The shape of points – extension in nature 1016

Chapter XII Extension and Unification (Not yet Available) 1046

Chapter XIII The Top oft he Mountain (Not yet Available) 1047

Fourth Part : Appendices

Appendix A Notation and Conventions 1049

Appendix B Units, Measurements and Constants 1060

Appendix C Particle Properties 1078

Appendix D Numbers and Spaces 1098

Appendix E Information Sources on Motion 1128

Appendix F Challenge Hints & Solutions 1134

Appendix G List ofI llustrations 1178

Appendix H List ofT ables 1190

Appendix I Name Index 1193

Appendix J Subject Index 1216