Description
Book SynopsisExplores the connections between materialist research on the atom and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.
Table of ContentsAuthor's Note
Introduction
I. The Atom - A Historical Background
(i) Prelude in Greece
(ii) Elements and Principles
(iii) The Way of Truth
(iv) Atoms
(v) Roadblock
(vi) Atoms back in Vogue
(vii) Making Waves
(viii) Rudolf Steiner meets the Atom
(ix) Rejection
(x) The Age of Electricity
(xi) The Electrical Atom and Human Thought
II. A Background for Quanta
(i) Origins
(ii) Thermal Radiation
(iii) Enter Max Planck
III. Steiner in the Quantum Age
(i) Physical Science and Spiritual Science
(ii) The Goethean Alternative
(iii) The Primal Phenomenon
IV. Bohr's Atom -- Antecedents
(i) Periodic Tables
(ii) From Siberia with Love
(iii) Predictions and Confusions
(iv) The Hydrogen Spectrum
(v) Cathode Rays
(vi) The Unstable Atom
V. The Rutherford-Bohr Atom
(i) Bohr Gets Involved
(ii) The Hydrogen Atom
(iii) Beyond Hydrogen
VI. Late Words from Rudolf Steiner
(i) A Science of Dead Matter
(ii) The Demonic Atom
(iii) Don't be an Ostrich
(iv) The Struggle for Human Consciousness
(v) So what about the Electron?
VII. The Atom After Steiner
(i) Waves and Particles
(ii) Knabenphysik
(iii) "Thou Shalt Make No Mental Image."
(iv) Discontinuities and Probabilities
(v) HBJ or the Three-Man-Paper
(vi) Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics
(vii) Indeterminacy
(viii) Quantum Physics and the Periodic Table
(ix) More about Probability
(x) Niels Bohr -- A Goethean Physicist?
(xi) Are Particles Real?
VIII. Epilogue
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
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