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Remodeling Reality

Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the Modern Worldview

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Mike Corwin

Remodeling Reality

The Impact of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics on Our Worldview

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Remodeling Reality: The Impact of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics on Our Worldview

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Remodeling Reality: The Impact of Relativity

and Quantum Mechanics on Our Worldview

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Contents

1 he First 2000 Years 9

1.1 he Birth of Science 10

1.2 he Greek Worldview 13

1.3 he Middle Ages 18

2 he Scientiic Revolution and the Modern Worldview 20

2.1 Nicolaus Copernicus 20

2.2 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler 22

2.3 Galileo Galilei 24

2.4 Isaac Newton 27

3 Nineteenth Century Physics 32

3.1 Atoms in the 19th Century 33

3.2 he Chemical Elements 34

3.3 he Nature of Light 34

3.4 Energy 38

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4 Unresolved Questions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 41

4.1 Observations hat Appeared To Defy Analysis Using Classical Physics 41

4.2 he Scientiic Worldview at the Start of the 20-th Century 48

5 Max Planck and the Concept of the Quantum 49

5.1 Max Planck 50

5.2 he Concept of the Quantum 51

6 Albert Einstein and the Miracle Year 53

6.1 he Photoelectric Efect and the Quantum Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation 54

6.2 Brownian Motion and the Reality of Atoms 58

6.3 Special Relativity and Space-time 58

6.4 he Equivalence of Matter and Energy 61

6.5 Einstein’s Fith Paper 62

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