TABLE OF CONTENTS

The first five volumes present established physics (size: 52MB, 29MB, 33MB, 12MB, 29MB). In contrast, the sixth volume (9MB) is a separate, speculative text.
 
To read the volumes online, without downloading them, click on vol. I, vol. II, vol. III, vol. IV, vol. V or vol. VI.
 

FIRST VOLUME	FALL, FLOW AND HEAT
1	Why should we care about motion?	14
2	From motion measurement to continuity	31
3	How to describe motion – kinematics	65
4	From objects and images to conservation	81
5	From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion	108
6	Motion due to gravitation	134
7	Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion	171
8	Measuring change with action	187
9	Motion and symmetry	202
10	Simple motions of extended bodies – oscillations and waves	221
11	Do extended bodies exist? – Limits of continuity	248
12	From heat to time-invariance	277
13	Self-organization and chaos - the simplicity of complexity	301
14	From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion	313
Appendix A	Notation and conventions	318

 

SECOND VOLUME	RELATIVITY
1	Maximum speed, observers at rest, and motion of light	15
2	General relativity: gravitation, maximum speed and maximum force	92
3	The new ideas on space, time and gravity	119
4	Motion in general relativity - bent light and wobbling vacuum	141
5	Why can we see the stars? - Motion in the universe	185
6	Black holes - falling forever	225
7	Does space differ from time?	240
8	General relativity in ten points - a summary for the layman	247

 

THIRD VOLUME	LIGHT, CHARGES AND BRAINS
1	Liquid electricity, invisible fields and maximum speed	15
2	The description of electromagnetic field evolution	54
3	What is light?	71
4	Images and the eye - optics	108
5	Charges are discrete - the limits of classical electrodynamics	122
6	Electromagnetic effects	125
7	Classical physics in a nutshell	147
8	The story of the brain	153
9	Thought and language	166
10	Concepts, lies and patterns of nature	185
Appendix A	Numbers and spaces	224
Appendix B	Units, measurements and constants	258
Appendix C	Sources of information on motion	276

 

FOURTH VOLUME	QUANTUM THEORY: THE SMALLEST CHANGE
1	Minimum action - quantum theory for poets	14
2	Light - the strange consequences of the quantum of action	34
3	Motion of matter - beyond classical physics	56
4	Colours and other interactions between light and matter	83
5	Permutation of particles - Are particles like gloves?	94
6	Rotations and statistics - visualising spin	105
7	Superpositions and probabilities - quantum theory without ideology	117

 

FIFTH VOLUME	PLEASURE, TECHNOLOGY AND STARS
1	Motion for enjoying life	15
2	Changing the world with quantum theory	42
3	Quantum electrodynamics - the origin of virtual reality	85
4	Quantum mechanics with gravitation - the first approach	100
5	The structure of the nucleus - the densest clouds	118
6	The sun, stars and the birth of matter interaction	144
7	The strong interaction	153
8	The weak nuclear interaction and the handedness of nature	171
9	The standard model of elementary particle physics - as seen on television	186
10	Dreams of unification	191
11	Bacteria, flies and knots	199
12	Quantum physics in a nutshell	228
Appendix A	Composite particle properties	244

 

SIXTH VOLUME	A SPECULATION ON UNIFICATION
1	From millennium physics to unification	17
2	Physics in limit statements	21
3	General relativity versus quantum theory	47
4	Does matter differ from vacuum?	53
5	What is the difference between the universe and nothing?	75
6	The physics of love - an intermediate report	98
7	The shape of points - extension in nature	108
8	The basis of the strand model	139
9	Quantum theory of matter deduced from strands	152
10	Gauge interactions deduced from strands	187
11	General relativity deduced from strands	222
12	Particles and their properties deduced from strands	244
13	The top of the mountain	289

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