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Motion Mountain Physikverein
Dr. Christoph Schiller (Vorsitzender & verantwortlich für den Inhalt)
Sperberstraße 32
81827 München
Germany
Tel. (089) 44109266
Email christoph@motionmountain.net

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Book errata and topic suggestions can be added on the wiki at https://sites.google.com/view/motionmountainsuggestions/. Every erratum and every suggestion that you send in is thoroughly evaluated. Good ones are rewarded. Research feedback is best sent via mail.

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The Motion Mountain Physikverein (in English: Motion Mountain Research) is a non-profit research organisation that is charitable and tax-exempt according to German law. Part of the work is done in Italy. The organisation has two aims in its statute: distributing the free physics textbook (the green web pages) and conducting research in fundamental physics (the grey web pages). Your donation, however small, is welcome – and tax-deducible. The use of the donations is controlled by the German tax authorities. Thank you in advance for any donation – also in the name of all future readers. People who read make the world a better place.

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Christoph Schiller, the author of the Motion Mountain Textbook, was born in 1960 and is Italian, German, and European. He is married and has two children. Raised bilingually in Varese (Italy), he studied physics at the Universität Stuttgart (Germany) and received his Ph.D. in physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), in the department of Ilya Prigogine. He has also lived in Switzerland, the UK, France, Japan and the Netherlands. His Erdős number is 5, and so is his Einstein number – average numbers for a physicist of his age.

As a physicist, Christoph Schiller is known for three reasons.
      1. His freely downloadable Motion Mountain Physics Textbook makes physics simple and captivating. This book series grew from his fascination for nature, from his drive to understand everything that is observed to move in it, and from his passion to write about it. He likes to summarize the book series and all of physics in 8 lines.
      2. In the years from 1999 to 2005, he formulated and published in the textbook and in a few research papers -- independently of Gary Gibbons -- the principle of maximum force, which states that general relativity is a consequence of nature's limit force value c⁴/4G (or of maximum power c⁵/4G). The principle is becoming the topic of an increasing number of papers.
      3. Maximum force led to his main pastime, the strand conjecture, presented on the research page. Texts are also found on ResearchGate and on Google Scholar. The strand conjecture, or tangle model, summarizes all of physics in 1 line: the Dirac trick at the Planck scale explains Lagrangians, interactions, particles and constants.

As an innovator, Christoph Schiller grows high-tech businesses by transforming physics and technology into products and jobs. He also writes and talks about how experience with physics improves innovation management and risk management. Similarly, he likes to tell how experience with customers and companies helps to improve teaching and to improve research.

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Both Christoph Schiller and Motion Mountain Research fully endorse the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity of All European Academies (ALLEA), the Rules of Good Scientific Practice of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR) of the National Science Foundation of the United States.

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A personal note. This site is about sharing and enjoying knowledge about physics. If you email me, I will try to answer questions, to help, and to be as polite as I can. I try to behave in writing as I do in person. Polite mails will be answered.