Preface | p. 9 |
Origins | p. 11 |
Atoms | p. 14 |
Waves | p. 17 |
Quanta | p. 19 |
Quantumalia: Before and After Democritus | p. 21 |
Quantumalia: Titus Lucretius Carus | p. 22 |
Quantumalia: Isaac Newton on Atoms | p. 24 |
Spectra | p. 25 |
Ions | p. 28 |
Radiant Matter | p. 29 |
Atoms, Electrons, Waves | p. 32 |
Quantumalia: Discovery of Spectral Analysis | p. 33 |
Quantumalia: The Beginnings of Television | p. 34 |
Quantumalia: William Crookes | p. 35 |
Quantumalia: Kinetic Theory of Gases | p. 36 |
Quantumalia: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov | p. 37 |
The Planetary Atom | p. 40 |
Spectral Series | p. 41 |
Photons | p. 44 |
Victory of Atomistics | p. 47 |
Quantumalia: The Indivisible Atom | p. 48 |
Quantumalia: The Diffraction Grating | p. 49 |
Quantumalia: Just What Hath Rutherford Wrought? | p. 50 |
Quantumalia: Light Pressure | p. 51 |
Pre-Bohr Times | p. 52 |
The Bohr Atom | p. 53 |
Post-Bohr Times | p. 56 |
Formal Model of the Atom | p. 57 |
Quantumalia: Niels Henrik David Bohr | p. 60 |
Quantumalia: Experimental Proof of Bohr's Postulates | p. 61 |
Teachings of the Ancients | p. 64 |
First Attempts | p. 64 |
Elements and Atoms | p. 67 |
Table of Elements | p. 69 |
The Periodic Law | p. 70 |
Quantumalia: Atoms and People | p. 74 |
Ideas | p. 77 |
Contemporaries Comment on Bohr's Theory | p. 80 |
Phenomenon, Image, Concept, Formula | p. 81 |
Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics | p. 83 |
Quantumalia: The Foundation of Physics | p. 86 |
Louis de Broglie | p. 89 |
Matter Waves | p. 90 |
Optical-Mechanical Analogy | p. 92 |
Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics | p. 93 |
Quantumalia: The Life of Boscovich... | p. 95 |
Quantumalia: ...and His Atom | p. 96 |
Quantumalia: Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) | p. 97 |
Schrodinger's Equation | p. 101 |
The Meaning of the [Psi] Function | p. 102 |
The Image of the Atom | p. 103 |
Quantum Truth | p. 105 |
Quantumalia: Compton's Experiment | p. 106 |
Quantumalia: Electron Diffraction | p. 109 |
Wave-Particle Duality | p. 110 |
Uncertainty Relation | p. 111 |
Complementarity Principle | p. 113 |
Quantumalia: Duality and Uncertainty | p. 117 |
Quantumalia: Poets and the Complementarity Principle | p. 118 |
Heads or Tails and Target Shooting | p. 120 |
Electron Diffraction | p. 122 |
Probability Waves | p. 123 |
Electron Waves | p. 124 |
The Atom and Probability | p. 125 |
Probability and Atomic Spectra | p. 126 |
Causality and Chance, Probability and Certainty | p. 127 |
Quantumalia: People, Events, Quanta | p. 129 |
What is an Atom? What is Quantum Mechanics? | p. 136 |
Physical Reality | p. 138 |
Quantumalia: In Search of the Last Concepts | p. 141 |
Results | p. 145 |
Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen | p. 147 |
Antoine Henri Becquerel | p. 149 |
Pierre and Marie Curie | p. 151 |
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy | p. 152 |
The Energy of Radium | p. 155 |
Quantumalia: X ray Waves | p. 155 |
The Chemistry of Radioelements | p. 158 |
Isotopes | p. 159 |
Uranium Family | p. 161 |
Stable Isotopes | p. 162 |
Radioactive Decay Energy | p. 163 |
Nuclear Binding Energy | p. 166 |
Quantumalia: Uranium | p. 167 |
Quantumalia: Earth and Radium | p. 168 |
Quantumalia: Knights of the Fifth Decimal Place | p. 168 |
Probing into the Nucleus | p. 170 |
The Neutron | p. 172 |
Artificial Radioactivity | p. 173 |
Slow Neutrons | p. 174 |
Nuclear Fission | p. 176 |
Quantumalia: Letters about Fission | p. 178 |
Tunnel Effect | p. 180 |
Effective Cross-sections of Reactions | p. 184 |
Neutron Cross-sections | p. 185 |
Nuclear Fission | p. 188 |
Quantumalia: Labelled Atoms | p. 189 |
Quantumalia: Radiocarbon Dating | p. 190 |
Chain Reaction | p. 193 |
Nuclear Reactor | p. 198 |
Quantumalia: Spontaneous Fission of Uranium | p. 200 |
Quantumalia: The Natural Nuclear Reactor at Oklo | p. 200 |
Atomic Energy | p. 203 |
Plutonium | p. 204 |
The Atomic Bomb | p. 206 |
The Atomic Problem | p. 208 |
Quantumalia: A Chronology of the Atomic Era | p. 209 |
Quantumalia: Soddy on Atomic Energy | p. 214 |
Solar Light | p. 218 |
Crucibles of Elements | p. 220 |
The Fate of the Sun | p. 223 |
The Sun, Life, and Chlorophyll | p. 225 |
Quantumalia: Life under the Sun | p. 228 |
Quantumalia: A Sun on Earth | p. 231 |
Quantumalia: Quanta Around Us | p. 231 |
Reflections | p. 233 |
Inception of the Scientific Method | p. 236 |
Essence of the Scientific Method and its Development | p. 238 |
Truth and Completeness of the Scientific Picture of the World | p. 240 |
Science and Humanity | p. 242 |
Boundaries of the Scientific Method | p. 243 |
Science and Art | p. 244 |
Future of Science | p. 247 |
Epilogue | p. 248 |
Subject Index | p. 249 |
Name Index | p. 251 |
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