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The first five volumes present established physics (size: 54MB, 30MB, 38MB, 18MB, 30MB). In contrast, the sixth volume (10MB) is a separate, speculative text.

Read the volumes online, without download, here on scribd.com, though without running films.

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pdfDownload volume I FALL, FLOW AND HEAT
        1 Why should we care about motion? 15
        2 From motion measurement to continuity 32
        3 How to describe motion – kinematics 67
        4 From objects and images to conservation 84
        5 From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion 112
        6 Motion due to gravitation 138
        7 Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion 177
        8 Measuring change with action 193
        9 Motion and symmetry 208
        10 Simple motions of extended bodies – oscillations and waves 227
        11 Do extended bodies exist? – Limits of continuity 256
        12 From heat to time-invariance 285
        13 Self-organization and chaos - the simplicity of complexity 310
        14 From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion 323
  Appendix A Notation and conventions 328
  Appendix B Units, measurements and constants 339
  Appendix C Sources of information of motion 352

 

pdfDownload volume II RELATIVITY
        1 Maximum speed, observers at rest, and motion of light 15
        2 General relativity: gravitation, maximum speed and maximum force 95
        3 The new ideas on space, time and gravity 122
        4 Motion in general relativity - bent light and wobbling vacuum 144
        5 Why can we see the stars? - Motion in the universe 189
        6 Black holes - falling forever 231
        7 Does space differ from time? 246
        8 General relativity in ten points - a summary for the layman 253
  Appendix A Units, measurements and constants 259

 

pdfDownload volume III LIGHT, CHARGES AND BRAINS
        1 Liquid electricity, invisible fields and maximum speed 14
        2 The description of electromagnetic field evolution 60
        3 What is light? 78
        4 Images and the eye - optics 111
        5 Electromagnetic effects 136
        6 Summary and limity of classical electrodynamics 136
        7 Classical physics in a nutshell 163
        8 The story of the brain 169
        9 Thought and language 184
        10 Concepts, lies and patterns of nature 204
  Appendix A Units, measurements and constants 244

 

pdfDownload volume IV 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 58
        4 Colours and other interactions between light and matter 88
        5 Permutation of particles - Are particles like gloves? 102
        6 Rotations and statistics - visualising spin 113
        7 Superpositions and probabilities - quantum theory without ideology 128
        8 Quantum physics in a nutshell 153
  Appendix A Units, measurements and constants 159
  Appendix B Numbers and vector spaces 174

 

pdfDownload volume V PLEASURE, TECHNOLOGY AND STARS
        1 Motion for enjoying life 15
        2 Changing the world with quantum theory 45
        3 Quantum electrodynamics - the origin of virtual reality 91
        4 Quantum mechanics with gravitation - the first approach 107
        5 The structure of the nucleus - the densest clouds 127
        6 The sun, stars and the birth of matter 155
        7 The strong interaction 164
        8 The weak nuclear interaction and the handedness of nature 183
        9 The standard model of elementary particle physics - as seen on television 198
        10 Dreams of unification 203
        11 Bacteria, flies and knots 211
        12 Quantum physics in a nutshell – again 240
  Appendix A Units, measurements and constants 254
  Appendix B Composite particle properties 268
  Appendix C Space, algebras and shapes 284

 

pdfDownload volume VI A SPECULATION ON UNIFICATION
        1 From millennium physics to unification 17
        2 Physics in limit statements 22
        3 General relativity versus quantum theory 48
        4 Does matter differ from vacuum? 54
        5 What is the difference between the universe and nothing? 77
        6 The physics of love - an intermediate report 100
        7 The shape of points - extension in nature 110
        8 The basis of the strand model 142
        9 Quantum theory of matter deduced from strands 158
        10 Gauge interactions deduced from strands 197
        11 General relativity deduced from strands 236
        12 Particles and their properties deduced from strands 261
        13 The top of the mountain 308

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