Contents |
| Preface |
| Introduction: The Fire Within |
| Chapter 1: The Wirbelrohr's Roar |
| Chapter 2: Musical Bottles, Flying Balloons, and Hot Stoves: The Uncommon Physics of Common Things |
| 2.1: The good sound of CokeTM: Physical modeling by analogy |
| 2.2: Comedy of errors: What every aeronaut needs to know
2.3: Cool in the kitchen: Radiation, conduction, and Newton's 'hot:block' experiment |
| Chapter 3: The Unimaginably Strange Behaviour of Free Electrons |
| 3.1: Variations on 'the only mystery' 3.2: Electron interference in a space with holes 3.3: The two-electron quantum interference disappearing act 3.4: Heretical correlations |
| Chapter 4: Quantum Beats and Giant Atoms |
| 4.1: The light from atomic 'pulsars' 4.2: Anomalous reversals 4.3: Quantum implications of travelling in circles 4.4: Long-distance beats |
| Chapter 5: And Yet It Moves: Exotic Atoms and the Invariance of Charge |
| 5.1: A commotion about motion 5.2: The electric charge of a moving electron 5.3: The exotic atom 5.4: The Planetary atom |
| Chapter 6: Reflections on Light |
| 6.1: Exorcising a Maxwell demon 6.2: Enhanced reflection: how light gets brighter when it is up against a wall 6.3: Left- and right-handed reflection |
| Chapter 7: Two Worlds, Large and Small: Earth and Atom |
| Chapter 8: Computers, Coins, and Quanta: Unexpected Outcomes of Random Events |
| 8.1: The suggestive power of fun 8.2: To switch or not to switch: that is the question 8.3: On the run: How random is random? 8.4: Random acts of measurement 8.5: Do radioactive nuclei decay randomly? 8.6: Mark off time with Markov 8.7: Exponential decay, correlation, and randomness: the quantum perspective |
| Chapter 9: A Universe of Atoms: Symmetry, Unity, Gravity, and the Problem of 'Missing Mass' |
| 9.1: Keep it together! Keep it together! Keep it together! 9.2: Symmetries for the mind's eye 9.3: Spontaneous symmetry breaking 9.4: What is the matter with gravity? 9.5: Shedding light on dark matter 9.6: A galactic superfluid? 9.7: And so... |
| Chapter 10: Science and Wonder |
| Selected Papers by the Author |
| About the Author |
| Index |