Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics

- Introduction
Chapter 1: Rise and Fall of Physical Theories
- The evolution of Modern Physics from the classical world
- Intuitiveness and truth of Modern Physics
- The new approach: Reduction of metaphysical hypotheses
Chapter 2 : Reconstruction of Special and General Relativity
- Historical Development versus rational reconstruction
- Reconstruction of Special Relativity
- Space-time intervals and Relativistic Mechanics
- The numerical value of the constant w
- Could Special Relativity have been discovered already by Newton? A pseudo-historical digression
- The attempt to reconstruct General Relativity
Chapter 3: Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics
- The Historical Development of Quantum Mechanics
- The reduction of ontological hypotheses
- the 3 ontologies
- The formal languages of classical physics and of quantum physics
- The approach to orthomodular quantum logic
- The bottom-top reconstruction of QM in Hilbert space
- Physics without individuals - Are the laws of Quantum Logic laws of nature?
- Quantum physics and classical physics - their respective roles
Chapter 4 : Three constants of Nature
- The problem of constants of nature in modern physics
- The meaning of constant c in modern physics
- Planck's constant h in the light of quantum logic
- The problem of the gravitational constant k
Chapter 5: Concluding remarks
- Philosophical positions and the problem of metaphysics
- Three ontologies: Graphical representations of interrelations
- Appendix 1: The Minkowskian space-time
- Appendix 2: Quantum mechanics in Hilbert space
- Appendix 3: Quantum logical lattices