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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Photon: History of a Misrepresentation
Chapter 2 The Concept of a Particle
Chapter 3 Reinterpreting the Wavefunction
How Wavefunctions Combine in an Interaction
Wavefunctions in Atoms
Wavefunctions in the Early Universe
Chapter 4 Matter and Its Motion
Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanical Motion
Force, Fields, and Motion
Quantum Electrostatics
Recapitulation
Appendix A Spacetime
Time and the Expansion of the Universe
The Asymmetry of Time
Thermodynamic Time
Time Asymmetry in Quantum Mechanics
Some Metaphysical Thoughts
Appendix B Curved Spacetime: Illusory Particles?
Vacuum Fluctuations
The Unruh Effect
Hawking Radiation
The Underlying Physics of Hawking Radiation
Charge, Spacetime Geometry, and Effective Mass
Curvature in the Reissner–Nordström Solution
The Electric Field
Summary
Appendix C The Vacuum and the Cosmological Constant Problem
Introduction
Vacuum Instability and Negative Energy States
QFT and Gauge Invariance
Solomon’s Redefinition of the Vacuum
Origin of the Inconsistencies in QFT and Summary
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