Caroline Thompson's Physics
Books on Problems of Fundamental Physics
(Originally prepared for the University of Georgia, July 1998)
Aczel, Amir D: Entanglement: The greatest mystery in physics. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York (2001). Recommended for historical and biographical information, but not (despite lengthy interviews with Abner Shimony) for facts about the evidence for entanglement. See my letter, January 2005. [CHT]
Afriat, A and Selleri, F: The Paradox of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics. Plenum Press, NY and London (1998) [FS, CHT]
Arp, Halton: Quasars Redshifts and Controversies. Interstellar Media, Berkeley CA (1987) [CHT, FS, HA]
Arp, Halton: Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science. (1998) Can now be ordered from: apeiron@vif.com [HA]
Aspden, Harold: Aether Science Papers. (1996) [HAsp, CHT]
Aspden, Harold: Modern Aether Science. (1972) [HAsp]
Details of both the above available at http://www.energyscience.co.uk
Baeyer, Hans Christian Von: Taming the Atom. (Viking , 1992) [CHT]
Beckmann, Petr: Einstein Plus Two. (Golem Press, 1987) [TVF, AP]
Bell, John: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics. (CUP, 1987) [CHT, FS]
Bjerknes, Christopher Jon: Albert Einstein, the Incorrigible Plagiarist. (XTX Inc, 2002). A strictly qualified recommendation only! [CHT]
Brody T A: The Philosophy Behind Physics. (Springer-Verlag, 1993) [AMC, CHT]
Cartwright, Nancy: How the Laws of Physics Lie. (Clarendon Press 1983) [CHT]
Collins, Harry and Trevor Pinch: The Golem: What everyone should know about Science. (Cambridge University Press, 1993) [NM, CHT]
Dishington, Roland H: Physics 2001. Available from the author at Beak Publications, P.O. Box 333, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. See review. [SR***, CHT]
Edwards, Matthew, Pushing Gravity. (Apeiron 2002). http://redshift.vif.com or Roy Keys by mail at 4405 St-Dominique, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 2B2 Canada (or by e-mail at apeiron@vif.com). See review: a must! [GA]
Flandern, Tom Van: Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets. North Atlantic Books (1993 & 1998?) See review by CHT. [TVF, AK]
French, A P (ed): Einstein - A Centenary Volume. Heinemann, London (1979) [TT]
Haas-Lorentz, G L De: H A Lorentz. Impressions of his life and work. North-Holland (1957) [CHT]
Hatch, Ronald R: Escape from Einstein. Kneat Company, 1142 Lakme Ave, Wilmington, CA 90744 [SR**]
Hendry, John: The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue, D Reidel Publishing Company (1984) [CHT]
Hunter, G, Vigier, J-P and Jeffers, S (eds.): Causality and Locality in Modern Physics. Kluwer (1998) [CHT]
Jammer M: The philosophy of quantum mechanics. Wiley 1974 [AMC]
Lerner, Eric: The Big Bang Never Happened. Vintage, NY (1992) [CHT]
Lorentz, Hendrik A: Theory of Electrons. Teubner (1916) [CHT]
Lorentz, Hendrik A: Problems of Modern Physics. Dover (1927) [CHT]
Metenheim, C Von: Popper versus Einstein. Publisher Mohr Sibeck, Tübingen, Germany ISBN 3-16-146910-0.(1998) [AK]
Mitchell, William: The Cult of the Big Bang. Cosmic Sense Books, Nevada (1995) [CHT]
Moore, Walter: Schroedinger: Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press [MW]
Peña, Luis and Cetto, Ana Maria: The Quantum Dice: an Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics. Kluwer, Dordrecht (1996) [CHT, FS]
Phipps, Thomas E Jr: Heretical Verities: Mathematical Themes in Physical Description. ISBN 0-969654007. Classic Non-fiction Library, P.O. Box 926, Urbana, IL 61801
This may be only available from the author himself these days: 908 South Busey Av, Urbana, Illinois, USA 61801 [DR, MW, SR****]
Powers J: Philosophy and the new physics. [AMC]
Prigogine, I: Order out of chaos. [EL]
Rado, Steven: Aethro-Kinematics: The Reinstatement of Common Sense - an Alternate Solution to the Problems of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology. Aethron Publishing Company, Los Angeles (1994). Or direct from author at srado@westworld.com . CD available from http://www.aethro-kinematics.com [SR, CHT]
Selleri, Franco: Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality. Kluwer, Dordrecht (1990) [CHT, FS, AMC]
Selleri, Franco (ed.): Open Questions in Relativistic Physics. Apeiron, Montreal (1998). Proceedings of Athens conference, June 25-28, 1997, on "Relativistic Physics and some of its Applications". [CHT, FS, AK, TVF]
Silverman,
Mark P: And Yet it Moves. Strange
Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics, Cambridge University Press 1993.
[CHT]
Spolter, Pari: Gravitational Force of the Sun. Orb Publishing Company, 11862 Balboa Blvd, # 182 Granada Hills, CA 91344 [SR*]
Stenger, Victor J: The Unconscious Quantum. ISBN 1-57392-022-3. [AFK]
Turner and Hazelett (eds.): The Einstein Myth and the Ives Papers. Devin-Adair, Connecticut (1979). [RWB]
Wallace, Bryan: The Farce of Physics. (1993) Available electronically at http://surf.de.uu.net/bookland/sci/farce/farce_toc.html [CHT]
Waller, John: Fabulous Science, Oxford University Press (2002). See comments. Millikan's oil drops were not quite as well-behaved as we've been told! [CHT]
Wesley, Paul: Classical Quantum Theory, which can be ordered directly from the author at Weiherdammstr. 24, D-78176 Blumberg, GERMANY; Tel.++49-7702.658. See comments: highly recommended! (1996) [CHT, GG]
Wick, David: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhauser, Boston (1995). [TWM, ES, AMC, AFK]
Whittaker, Sir Edmund: History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 18 E. 41st Street, New York 17, NY (1951) [CHT, SR*****]
Wolff, Milo: Exploring the Physics of the Unknown Universe - An Adventurers Guide. ISBN 0-9627787-0-2. Sold at Barnes & Noble, Ingram, www.book.com and www.Amazon.com [MW, SR**]
Kock, Winston E: Sound Waves and Light Waves. Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co Inc, 1965 [BD]
Journals
Apeiron [TVF, MW, FS]
Foundations of Physics [AMC]
Foundations of Physics Letters [AMC, FS]
Galilean Electrodynamics [TVF, MW]
Hadronic Journal [FS]
Journal of Scientific Exploration [TVF]
Meta Research Bulletin [TVF]
Physics Essays [TVF, MW, FS]
Recommended by:
[AK] Al Kelly, Ireland
[AFK] Al Kracklauer, Germany
[AMC] Ana Maria Cetto, Mexico
[AP] Alan Pendleton
[BD] Bertrand Ducharme, Canada
[DR] David Roscoe, Sheffield, UK
[EL] Eric Lerner
[ES] Emilio Santos, Santander, Spain
[FS] Franco Selleri, Bari, Italy
[GA] GravitationalAnomalies egroup
[GG] George Galeczki
[HA] Halton Arp
[HAsp] Harold Aspden
[MW] Michael Weiss
[NM] Neil Munch
[TFW] Trevor Marshall, Manchester, UK
[TVF] Tom Van Flandern, US
[RWB] Robert W Bass
[SR] Steven Rado, US
[TT] Theo Theocharis
[WD] William Day