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The first five volumes present established physics. (Size: 52MB, 29MB, 33MB, 12MB, 29MB. In contrast, the sixth volume (9MB) is a separate, speculative text. All volumes are now available as edition 23.5.
 

pdfFIRST 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

 

pdfSECOND 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

 

pdfTHIRD 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

 

pdfFOURTH 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

 

pdfFIFTH 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

 

pdfSIXTH 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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