The Atomic World Spooky? It Ain't Necessarily So! : Emergent Quantum Mechanics, How the Classical Laws of Nature Can Conspire to Cause Quantum-Like Behaviour

1. Introduction and Outline -- 2. Strange Behaviour at Quantum Scale: the full List -- 3. The Transition Region as Predicted by Quantum Mechanics -- 4. From Rigid Marble to Vibrating Droplet of Charge: Model Assumptions -- 5. Determining the Electromagnetic Self Forces -- 6. A Brief Excursion to Sub-Atomic Scales: the Electron, the Muon and the Tau Particle -- 7. Dynamics of the Droplet: a Pictorial Representation of the Equations of Motion -- 8. First Glimpses of Quantum Behaviour: Matter Waves -- 9. Energy Quantisation in Potential Wells -- 10. Still more (non)Glimpses: the Droplet is Sometimes Invisible -- 11. Schrödinger's Equation -- 12. On Radiation and Radio Silence; Interaction Between Charges and Radiation -- 13. On Bohr's Radiation "Out of Nothing"; and on Photons, the "Particles with a Wavelength" -- 14. Summing up the Successes and the Remaining Mysteries -- 15. A Chapter full of Speculations: Bohr's Atom, Schrödinger's Cat, "Spooky" Interactions, and the Double-Slit Experiment -- 16. Conclusions: the Direction Towards Einstein’s “Hidden Variable”?. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9789462392335