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| Preface An appetizer  FIRST PART |
FALL, FLOW AND HEAT |
10 13 19 |
| 1 | Why should we care about motion? | 22 |
| 2 | From motion measurement to continuity | 39 |
| 3 | How to describe motion – kinematics | 73 |
| 4 | From objects and images to conservation | 89 |
| 5 | From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion | 116 |
| 6 | Motion due to gravitation | 142 |
| 7 | Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion | 178 |
| 8 | Measuring change with action | 194 |
| 9 | Motion and symmetry | 209 |
| 10 | Simple motions of extended bodies – oscillations and waves | 226 |
| 11 | Do extended bodies exist? – Limits of continuity | 250 |
| 12 | From heat to time-invariance | 278 |
| 13 | Self-organization and chaos - the simplicity of complexity | 302 |
| 14 | From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion | 314 |
| Appendix A | Notation and conventions | 319 |
| SECOND PART |
RELATIVITY | 397 |
| 15 | Maximum speed, observers at rest, and motion of light | 401 |
| 16 | General relativity: gravitation, maximum speed and maximum force | 471 |
| 17 | The new ideas on space, time and gravity | 498 |
| 18 | Motion in general relativity - bent light and wobbling vacuum | 520 |
| 19 | Why can we see the stars? - Motion in the universe | 563 |
| 20 | Black holes - falling forever | 603 |
| 21 | Does space differ from time? | 618 |
| 22 | General relativity in ten points - a summary for the layman | 625 |
| THIRD PART |
LIGHT, CHARGES AND BRAINS | 663 |
| 23 | Liquid electricity, invisible fields and maximum speed | 667 |
| 24 | The description of electromagnetic field evolution | 703 |
| 25 | What is light? | 720 |
| 26 | Images and the eye - optics | 757 |
| 27 | Charges are discrete - the limits of classical electrodynamics | 770 |
| 28 | Electromagnetic effects | 773 |
| 29 | Classical physics in a nutshell - one and a half steps out of three | 794 |
| 30 | The story of the brain | 800 |
| 31 | Thought and language | 813 |
| 32 | Concepts, lies and patterns of nature | 832 |
| Appendix B | Numbers and spaces | 871 |
| Appendix C | Units, measurements and constants | 905 |
| Appendix D | Sources of information on motion | 923 |
| FOURTH PART |
QUANTUM THEORY: THE SMALLEST CHANGE | 968 |
| 33 | Minimum action - quantum theory for poets | 972 |
| 34 | Light - the strange consequences of the quantum of action | 989 |
| 35 | Motion of matter - beyond classical physics | 1011 |
| 36 | Colours and other interactions between light and matter | 1035 |
| 37 | Permutation of particles -- Are particles like gloves? | 1046 |
| 38 | Rotations and statistics - visualising spin | 1057 |
| 39 | Superpositions and probabilities - quantum theory without ideology | 1068 |
| FIFTH PART |
PLEASURE, TECHNOLOGY AND STARS | 1063 |
| 40 | Motion for enjoying life | 1113 |
| 41 | Changing the world with quantum theory | 1139 |
| 42 | Quantum electrodynamics - the origin of virtual reality | 1182 |
| 43 | Quantum mechanics with gravitation - the first approach | 1197 |
| 44 | The structure of the nucleus - the densest clouds | 1215 |
| 45 | The sun, stars and the birth of matter interaction | 1241 |
| 46 | The strong interaction | 1250 |
| 47 | The weak nuclear interaction and the handedness of nature | 1268 |
| 48 | The standard model of elementary particle physics - as seen on television | 1283 |
| 49 | Dreams of unification | 1288 |
| 50 | Bacteria, flies and knots | 1296 |
| 51 | Quantum physics in a nutshell | 1325 |
| Appendix E | Composite particle properties | 1341 |
| SIXTH PART |
MOTION WITHOUT MOTION - WHAT ARE SPACE, TIME AND PARTICLES? | 1386 |
| 52 | General relativity versus quantum theory | 1390 |
| 53 | Nature at large scales - is the universe something or nothing? | 1419 |
| 54 | The physics of love - a summary of the first five and a half parts | 1441 |
| 55 | Maximum force and minimum distance - physics in limit statements | 1452 |
| 56 | The shape of points - extension in nature | 1481 |
| 57 | Unification (not yet available) | 1512 |
| 58 | The top of the mountain (not yet available) | 1513 |
| Postface | 1514 | |
| Name index | 1532 | |
| Subject index | 1560 | |