Jochen Kirchhoff: Anti-History of Physics, Gebunden

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In Anti-History of Physics, Jochen Kirchhoff offers a radical critique of modern theoretical physics, presenting not a conventional history but an "anti-history" that unmasks its nihilistic and destructive trajectory from Galileo to the present day. Kirchhoff traces the roots of alienation to Galileo's separation of primary and secondary qualities, which initiated the mathematisation of nature and stripped the cosmos of soul and spirit. Newtonian mechanics, with its fictions of absolute space, time, and mass, entrenched a mechanistic worldview. Even the dynamic field theories of Faraday and Maxwell were ultimately absorbed into lifeless formalism. The book's core indictment targets 20th-century physics: special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, and Big Bang cosmology. Einstein's E=mc² unlocked the atomic bomb - the ultimate symbol of a science divorced from reverence. Quantum theory's indeterminism, particle-wave duality, and statistical laws dissolve reality into mathematical fictions, elevating chance to a metaphysical principle. Against this, Kirchhoff contrasts the insights of Giordano Bruno's infinite, ensouled cosmos and Helmut Krause's unified field theory, rooted in radial space-energy radiation from stellar cores. Gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces emerge as manifestations of a single primal cosmic process - harmonious, purposeful, and divine. Kirchhoff warns that abstract physics has fuelled ecological devastation, technological hubris, and spiritual emptiness. Only a holistic natural philosophy integrating epistemology, spirituality, and cosmic connectedness can restore meaning and heal humanity's rupture with the living universe. Provocative and erudite, Anti-History of Physics challenges readers to reclaim a cosmos alive with soul and purpose.