The Roots of Things

1 Themes.- Appendix DIR Paul Dirac.- 2 O Light Divine.- Appendix FOU Fourier Analysis.- Appendix FRE Frequency.- Appendix MEC Mechanism.- 3 The Young Experiment (1801).- Appendix GED Gedanken Experiments.- 4 A Whiff of Ether (1887).- Appendix ABE Aberration.- Appendix RIT Ritz Stars.- Appendix PDX Paradox and Antinomy.- 5 Prof. Planck Is Desperate (1901).- Appendix PLA Max Planck.- Appendix STA Standing Waves.- 6 The Photoelectric Effect (1902).- 7 Dr. Einstein's Light Arrows (1905).- 8 Young Revisited (1909).- 9 The Nuclear Atom (1904-1912).- Appendix SPH Spheres.- 10 Bohr's Atom (1913-1925).- Appendix ACC Accelerated Charges.- 11 Compton's Shift (1923).- 12 A Princely Postulate (1924).- Appendix ENE Energy of an Electron.- 13 Realism and Other Isms.- 14 Inventing the Wave Equation (1926).- Appendix WEL Well-Behaved Waves.- Appendix CMP Completeness.- 15 Collapsing the Wave.- Appendix HEI Werner Heisenberg.- Appendix COM Commutativity.- 16 Copenhagen Takes Over (1925¡ª?).- Appendix BOH Niels Bohr.- 17 EPR (1935) and EPR-B.- Appendix LIT Lightcones.- Appendix PAU Wolfgang Pauli.- 18 Bell's Thunderbolt (1964).- 19 The Toll of Bell.- Appendix SCH Schrödinger's Cat.- Appendix TIM Troublesome Time.- 20 Envoi.- References.- Name Index.

`A reader of this book is going to have fun. Rarely has good physics been presented in such a cheerful manner. Alan Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit, and insight.'
Gerald Mahan, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory