The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View: From Point Particles to the Brane World and Bey

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Point Particles. 1. The Spinless Point Particle. 2. Point Particles and Clifford Algebra. 3. Harmonic Oscillator in Pseudo-Euclidean Space. Part II: Extended Objects. 4. General Principles of Membrane Kinematics and Dynamics. 5. More About Physics in Mu-Space. 6. Extended Objects and Clifford Algebra. 7. Quantization. Part III: Brane World. 8. Spacetime as a Membrane in a Higher-Dimensional Space. 9. The Einstein-Hilbert Action on the Brane as The Effective Action. 10. On the Resolution of Time Problem in Quantum Gravity. Part IV: Beyond the Horizon. 11. The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View. 12. Nobody Really Understands Quantum Mechanics. 13. Final Discussion. Appendices. References. Index.