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Motion Mountain - The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification: Volume VI of the Adventure of Physics
Christoph Schiller
2019
This book is for anybody who is intensely curious about motion. Why and how do things, people, trees, stars, images or empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.
The search for the final, unified description of motion is a story of many surprises. First, twentieth-century research has shown that there is a smallest measurable distance in nature, the Planck length. Then it appeared that matter cannot be distinguished from empty space at those small distances. A last surprise dates from this century: particles and space appear to be made of strands, instead of little spheres or points. The present text explains how to reach these surprising conclusions. In particular, quantum field theory, the standard model of particle physics, general relativity and cosmology are shown to follow from strands. The three gauge interactions, the three particle generations and the three dimensions of space turn out to be due to strands. In fact, all the open questions of twentieth-century physics about the foundations of motion, including the origin of colours and of the parameters of the standard model, appear to be answerable.
The strand model, as presented in this text, is an unexpected result from a threefold aim that the author has pursued since 1990, in the five previous volumes of this series: to present the basics of motion in a way that is up to date, captivating and simple. While the previous volumes introduced the established parts of physics, this volume presents, in the same captivating and playful way, a speculation about unification. Nothing in this volume is established knowledge – yet. The text is the original presentation of the topic. The aim for maximum simplicity has been central in deducing this speculation.
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Keywords
- complete model
- Fadenmodell
- final theory of physics
- fine structure constant
- Reidemeister move
- Science
- Science / Physics
- Science / Physics / Quantum Theory
- spaghetti model
- strand model
- tangle model
- theory of everything
- unification of physics
- unified theory
- vollständiges Modell
- Weltformel
- world formula
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