And Yet It Moves: Contents



Preface: The fire within

Chapter 1: The unimaginably strange behaviour of free electrons

1.1 Variations on 'the only mystery'
1.2 Electron interference in a space with holes
1.3 The two-electron quantum interference disappearing act
1.4 Heretical correlations


Chapter 2: Quantum beats and giant atoms

2.1 The light from atomic 'pulsars'
2.2 Anomalous reversals
2.3 Quantum implications of travelling in circles
2.4 Long-distance beats


Chapter 3: And yet it moves: exotic atoms and the invariance of charge

3.1 A commotion about motion
3.2 The electron charge of a moving electron
3.3 The exotic atom
3.4 Epilogue: marking time with planetary atoms

Chapter 4: Reflections on light

4.1 Exorcising a Maxwell demon
4.2 Enhanced reflection: how light gets brighter when it is up against a wall
4.3 Left- and right-handed reflection


Chapter 5: Two worlds, large and small: Earth and atom

Chapter 6: The Wirbelrohr's roar (...or rather whistle)

Chapter 7: Science and wonder

Selected papers by the author

Index