Motion Mountain: The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification

What is the origin of colours?
Which problems in physics are unsolved since the year 2000 and what might be their solution?
Why do motion and change exist?
What is the origin of the principle of least action?
What is the origin of gauge symmetries?
What is the most fantastic voyage possible? 

Answering these and other questions, this book gives an entertaining and mind-twisting introduction to the search for the final theory of physics. The search leads to the strand model: Based on a simple principle, strands reproduce quantum theory, the standard model of particle physics and general relativity. Strands agree with all experimental data and allow estimating the fine structure constant, particle masses and all other constants of nature. 

Christoph Schiller, PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles, is a physicist and physics popularizer. This entertaining book is for students, teachers and anybody interested in modern research about fundamental physics.