Nonclassical Physics: Beyond Newton's View

Willis E. Lamb

R. Baine Harris

1. Special Relativity. 2. Waves and Particles I: Electromagnetic Radiation Behaving as Particles. 3. Waves and Particles II: Matter Behaving as Waves. 4. Bound States: Simple Cases. 5. Unbound States: Obstacles, Tunneling, and Particle-Wave Propagation. 6. Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions and the Hydrogen Atom. 7. Spin and Atomic Physics. 8. Statistical Mechanics. 9. Bonding: Molecules and Solids. 10. Nuclear Physics. 11. Fundamental Particles and Interactions. Appendices.

David W. Cohen

Fritjof Capra

I am a physicist, and my main interest over the past fifteen years has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century. These are still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view: from the mechanistic world view of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and

A. O. Bolivar

M. I. Shirokov

Abstract In 1949 Newton and Wigner have obtained a non‐covariant coordinate q of the scalar particle on the basis of some postulates. It is shown that the ordinary coordinate x satisfies all physical and mathematical requirements underlying their postulates if the definition (3) (see below) of the probability density in the x‐space is used. Therefore from the point of view of these requirements the coordinate x is in no way worse than the coordinate q. Only the requirement that the position operator must be hermitian is crucial for rejecting the x‐coordinate.