Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- PART 1 PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS -- 2. Reality and Its Description -- 2.1 The Language Factor -- 2.2 Explanation and Understanding -- 2.3 Theories and Physical Reality -- 3. Classical and Quantum Aspects of Reality -- 3.1 Classical Locality and Quantum Nonseparability -- 3.1.1 Distant simultaneity -- 3.1.2 Local time of special relativity and quantum -- 3.1.3 Tension -- 3.2 Emergent Space and Time -- 4. Time for a Change -- 4.1 Things and Processes -- 4.2 Time and Change -- PART 2 ELEMENTARY PARTICLES -- 5. The Standard Model and the Subparticle Paradigm -- 5.1 Particles in Space -- 5.1.1 The gauge-boson sector -- 5.1.2 The fermion sector -- 5.2 Beyond the Standard Model -- 5.3 Preons -- 6. The Problem of Mass -- 6.1 Leptons -- 6.2 Quarks -- 6.2.1 Current quarks -- 6.2.2 Constituent quarks -- 6.3 Hadron-Level Effects -- 7. Constituent Quarks and Spacetime Points -- 7.1 Hara's Theorem -- 7.2 Constituent Quark Model Calculation -- 7.3 Phenomenological Analysis: Help from Experiment -- 7.4 Combining Current Algebra and Vector-Meson Dominance -- 7.5 Reasons of CQM Failure -- 8. Elementary Particles and Macroscopic Space -- 8.1 Hadrons and Strings -- 8.2 Pointlike Subparticles or Strings? -- 8.3 Particles and Space -- PART 3 PHASE SPACE AND QUANTUM -- 9. Phase Space and Its Symmetries -- 9.1 The Arena of Nonrelativistic Phase Space -- 9.1.1 Phase space and time -- 9.1.2 Phase space and quantum numbers -- 9.2 Born's Problem: Mass vs. Reciprocity -- 9.2.1 Mass scales and phase space -- 9.2.2 Mass and reciprocity -- 9.2.3 The concept of mass: A heuristic -- 9.3 Emergence of U(1) SU(3) -- 9.3.1 Generalized reciprocity: U(1) -- 9.3.2 Generalized rotation: SU(3) -- 9.3.3 Classical case -- 10. Quantizing Phase Space -- 10.1 Quantization via Linearization -- 10.1.1 Phase-space linearization.

10.1.2 U(1) transformations -- 10.1.3 SU(3) transformations -- 10.2 Multiplets without Subparticles -- 10.2.1 The Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula -- 10.2.1.1 Eigenvalues of I3 and Y -- 10.2.1.2 Charge conjugation -- 10.2.1.3 Correlations -- 10.2.2 Preonless interpretation of the Harari-Shupe model -- 11. Elementary Particles from a Phase-Space Perspective -- 11.1 From Particle Transformations to Phase-Space Transformations -- 11.1.1 Isospin reversal and charge conjugation -- 11.1.1.1 Isospin reversal -- 11.1.1.2 Charge conjugation -- 11.1.2 Genuine SO(6) transformations -- 11.1.2.1 Transformations in Clifford algebra -- 11.1.2.2 Phase-space counterparts -- 11.2 Compositeness and Additivity -- 11.2.1 Descriptions of strong interactions and the concept of point -- 11.2.2 Additivity of canonical momenta -- 12. Generalizing the Concept of Mass -- 12.1 The Clifford Algebra of Nonrelativistic Phase Space -- 12.1.1 Even elements of the Clifford algebra -- 12.1.1.1 Elements H±nk, I±12 -- 12.1.1.2 Elements H±n0, H±0n -- 12.1.2 Odd elements of the Clifford algebra -- 12.1.2.1 SU(3) triplets and antitriplets -- 12.1.2.2 Singlets of SU(3) -- 12.1.2.3 Sextets and antisextets of SU(3) -- 12.2 The Clifford Algebra andMass -- 12.2.1 From lepton mass to quark mass -- 12.2.2 Clifford algebras and lepton masses -- 13. Overview -- Bibliography -- Index.