Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

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The electron itself still seems to be an elementary particle, nice and simple, but remember the positron? Positrons are like electrons except with a positive charge, and in fact, all the particles can have mirror images. There can be antiprotons, antineutrons, and even anti-quarks. If any of these meet their opposite, they wipe each other out, and a bundle of energy takes their place.

I don't know about you, but my head hurts.

Quarks form protons and neutrons.

FINAL THOUGHTS

As you can guess, any further speculation about quantum mechanics will only get more bizarre, so you can skip the rest of this chapter if you want. Any ramblings here don't necessarily lead to the conclusion in Chapter Fifteen. However, you can play around with some concepts yourself. Sometimes, one of us can have a good idea; our brains might not be stuck in a groove. Many of the great theories came from people when they were young and still flexible. Newton proposed the General Laws of Gravitation at the age of twenty-three; Einstein developed Special Relativity when he was twenty-six.

LIGHT

Quantum mechanics says measuring things affects what is being measured. We measure atom activity by sending some other kind of quantum object at the atom making it behave like a particle. Won't all light in the universe be disturbed on its way since it will likely get sideswiped by other flying particles causing a beam of light to break down into particles here and there?

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Sections

WHAT'S INSIDE MATTER

WHAT'S INSIDE ATOMS

WHAT IS LIGHT, REALLY

CAN WE PREDICT THE FUTURE

HOW DOES A QUANTUM ATOM ACT

CAN PARTICLES ACT LIKE WAVES

DO TWO SLITS MAKE SENSE

HOW DO QUANTUM NUCLEI ACT

WHAT'S INSIDE PROTONS/NEUTRONS

FINAL THOUGHTS

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