100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand

Preface.- Introduction.- Emergence of a Fundamental Constant in Physics.- Sorting out Selective Measurements.- QM Re-Invents Complex Numbers, Matrices, Operators and Inner-Product Spaces.- Symmetries and Emergence of h in the Formalism Itself.- Commutation Relations: Statements of Measurability.- Measurements and Interference.- Quantum Dynamics, Time Evolution and Quantum Scattering.- Stability of the H-Atom in Configuration Space.- Do Atomic Electrons Fall to the Center of Atoms?.- How QM Prevents Matter From Collapsing Around Us and Forces it to Occupy Such a Large Volume.- Bell's Tests, Entanglement and Refinements.- Schroedinger's Cat: A Theoretical Description.- Lorentz Frames and Minkowski Spacetime.- The Celebrated Lorentz Group: The Underlying Transformations Derived.- Physics in Minkowski Spcetime: Applications.- First Unified Field Theory: Maxwell's Equations, Lorentz Covariance and the Photon Concept.- Spinors and the Group SL(2,C).- QM Meets Relativity and the Birth of QFT: Fields & Particles.- The Five Types of Fields You Meet in High-Energy Physics.- Another Look at Symmetry and Quantum Generators of the Lorentz Group.- Gauge Fields.- Quarks, Leptons, Gluons and Massive Vector Fields.- The Three Main Lagrangians You Meet in Quantum Field Theory.- Quantum Dynamics: The Differential and Integral Formalisms of Two Giants in Physics.- Index.

Professor Dr. Edouard B. Manoukian is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the "Institute for Fundamental Study" of Naresuan University in Thailand. He carried out graduate studies at McGill University and University of Toronto obtaining the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, respectively, in 1967 and 1971. He held research positions at the "Theoretical Physics Institute" of the University of Alberta, the "Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies", and the "Centre de Recherches Math´ematiques Appliqu´ees" of the University of Montreal. He held professorships at the "Royal Military College of Canada" of the Department of National Defence, as well as at the "School of Physics" of Suranaree University of Technology and Naresuan University, in Thailand. He is the author of over 190 research papers in most aspects of Theoretical Physics, as well as of 8 books, 5 of which, including this one, are by Springer. The following books by the author: "Renormalization" (Academic Press), "Quantum Theory: A Wide Spectrum" (Springer), "Quantum Field Theory I: Foundations and Abelian and Non-Abelian Gauge Theories" (Springer), "Quantum Field Theory II: Introductions to Quantum Gravity, Supersymmetry and String Theory" (Springer), should be of interest to readers of the present one.