Motion Mountain - Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology and Stars: Volume V of the Adventure of Physics
Christoph Schiller
2019
This book series is for anybody who is curious about motion in nature. How do things, people, animals, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this volume presents those about motion inside everyday matter, inside people and animals, and inside stars and nuclei. Motion inside bodies – dead or alive – is tiny: thus it is described by quantum theory.
Quantum theory describes all motion with the quantum of action ħ, the smallest change observed in nature. Building on this basic idea, the text first shows how to describe life, death and pleasure. Then, the text explains the observations of chemistry, materials sci- ence, astrophysics and particle physics. In the structure of physics, these topics corres- pond to the three ‘quantum’ points in Figure 1. The story of motion found inside living cells, inside the coldest gases and throughout the hottest stars is told here in a way that is simple, up to date and captivating.
This work is a sequel of Motion Mountain - The Quantum of Change: Volume IV of The Adventure of Physics.
Motion Mountain - The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification: Volume VI of the Adventure of Physics is a sequel of this work.
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Keywords
- atomic physics
- Biology
- Biophysics
- Bohr
- Chemistry
- decoherence
- Dirac equation
- electron
- elementary particles
- entanglement
- gauge theory
- Interference
- material science
- matter waves
- Nuclear physics
- origin of colours
- photon
- photon counting
- Planck's constant
- Planck's constant
- Probability
- quantum physics
- Quantum field theory
- quantum mechanics
- quantum of action
- quantum particles
- Quantum theory
- Schrödinger equation
- Schroedinger equation
- Science
- Science / Physics
- Science / Physics / Quantum Theory
- Solid state physics
- spin
- spin-statistics
- spinor
- strong interaction
- Textbooks
- tunnel effect
- wave function
- wave function collapse
- weak interaction
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