Summary of the chapters 
We give below a concise overview of the contents of the several chapters. Although these chapters in general can be read also separately, it deserves recommendation to read these chapters in the offered order, to be able to follow easily the line of the story. A physical term that it is brought forward in a certain chapter, frequently finds a further interpretation in a later chapter.
1. Texts about our space-time.
We try to describe the origin and the entity of the time in an evolving universe. There appears to exist a cosmic time and an atomic time. If these times are or are not identical, coincides with the general validity of the laws of nature on large and small scale. The terms present, past and future are more closely defined, as well as the direction where the time us brings to. Finally follow some definitions for the several times, which are used in the science of nature.
2. The space-time continuum.
The space-time appears to consist out of a consistent totality of space and time. The three spatial dimensions with the time as fourth dimension give form to this space-time. In the space-time we work rather with the space-time interval, instead of distance and time separately. The advantage of this proves itself at the transformation of coordinate systems. Also the mass and energy of a physical system appear to have a consistent entity in the space-time. We introduce the space-time continuum, to get a seizure on inertia and forces of gravity. The expansion of the universe seems to have its origin from the geometrical curvature of our space-time continuum. Moreover this curvature must vary in the time, if we have an expanding or contracting universe.
3. The properties of the space-time in macrocosm.
This chapter is a logical continuation after the previous. From the cosmological principle, in which the homogeneity and isotropy of our universe come forward, directly follow the several properties for the structure of the space-time. The laws of Hubble and Newton, the invariance of the interval, the geometry of a curved space-time, as well as the change of energy and entropy in our expanding universe, appear to be closely connected with the structure of the space-time.
4. The properties of the space-time in the microcosm.
The physical processes on cosmic scale are mainly dominated by the gravitation. On atomic and subatomic scale however the gravitation disappears entirely of the stage. Here it is the electromagnetic force together with the weak and strong nuclear force, which govern the stage. These forces or better said interactions are subject to twelve conservation laws, which go hand in hand with invariances of physical quantities and symmetries in the space-time.
5. Space-time diagrams for particles and photons.
In this chapter we discuss more closely the interactions between the elementary particles, which we find in the microcosm of the space-time. We can make these interactions evident by using space-time diagrams. The conservation laws, which were described in the previous chapter, lead to splendid symmetries in the space-time. diagrams. Moreover it are these laws, which maintain the order in the apparent chaos of virtual particles in the microcosm of our physical world. Finally a short description of an inflationary universe follows, as quantum fluctuation in the chaos of the physical vacuum, submitted to the uncertainty relation.
6. Table for quarks and hadrons.
Table for quarks and for particles, composed out off quarks, in the original model. We use the name hadrons for all particles composed out off quarks. These are the mesons, consisting out of two quarks, and the baryons, consisting out of three quarks.
7. Table for quarks and leptons.
Table for simple particles: quarks and leptons in the standard model and their carriers of force. We know at present 12 types quarks, 12 types leptons and 12 types carriers of force (with spin 1). The Higgs particle (spin 0) and the graviton (spin 2) belong to the mysteries of our time.
8. The windows of time of the space.
There are several sorts of time in circulation. The universal time is used in the laws of Newton. The relativistic time plays a role in the special relativity of Einstein. The eigen-time and cosmic eigen-time become important in the space-time continuum of the general relativity. In the realm of the elementary particles, in the atomic and nuclear physics, one uses preferably the atomic and nuclear times.
9. Terminology for cosmology.
List with cosmological terms to be found the several chapters.
10. Mathematical appendix.
In Part 1 we describe the geometry of open and closed worlds in mathematical formulas.
Here we describe especially the spatial properties of these worlds. The open world know
only forever lasting expansion and after expansion the closed world will contract into a
singularity at a far point of time in the future.
In Part 2 we describe the several sorts of spaces for the several sorts of time in a
mathematical manner via the geometrical equation.
11. Summary of the chapters.
This page gives a short description of the contents of the web pages for each chapter.
12. References.
Books about the space-time, of which several have a direct link to a web-store for books. General links to internet bookstores. Converting foreign currencies to euro's, dollars, etc.
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