CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction and Biographical Notes -- Chapter 1: SU(3). Quarks and Symmetry Breaking -- 1.1 The Classification and Structure of Hadrons -- 1.2 Derivation of Strong Interactions from a Gauge Invariance -- 1.3 Baryon Charge and R-Inversion in the Octet Model -- 1.4 Protonium Two-Mesons Annihilation -- 1.5 The Fifth Interaction: Origins of the Mass Breaking Asymmetry -- 1.6 The Symmetry Breaking Interaction -- 1.7 Rare Decays as Clues to the Understanding of the Fifth Interaction (Generating the Generations) -- 1.8 Primitive Particle Model -- Chapter 2: Algebraic Theory of Particle Physics and Spectrum Generating Algebras -- 2.1 Current-Generated Algebras -- 2.2 Role of Non-Compact Groups -- 2.3 Series of Hadron Energy Levels as Representations of Non-Compact Groups -- 2.4 Band Spectra Generated by Non-Compact Algebra -- 2.5 The Algebra of Scalar and Vector Vertex Strengths in Regge Residues -- 2.6 Possible Vanishing of Strong Interaction Cross-Section at Infinite Energies -- 2.7 Suppression of Regge Cuts at t = 0 due to Universality of Factorized Residues -- 2.8 Symmetries Related to the Quark Model -- 2.9 The Spectrum-Generating Groups Program and the String -- Chapter 3: Supersymmetry and Supergravity -- 3.1 Graded Lie Algebras in Mathematics and Physics (Bose-Fermi Symmetry) -- 3.2 Affine Extensions of Supersymmetry: The Finite Case -- 3.3 Graded Spin-Extension of the Algebra of Volume-Preserving Deformations -- 3.4 Quantizing Gravity and Spacetime: Where Do We Stand? -- Chapter 4: Geometrization of Physics -- 4.1 On the Origin of Symmetries -- 4.2 Embedded Space-Time and Particle Symmetries -- 4.3 Gauge Theory of Gravity and Supergravity on a Group Manifold.

4.4 Ghost Fields BRS and Extended Supergravity as Applications of Gauge Geometry -- 4.5 Higher Algebraic Geometrization Emerging from Noncommutativity -- Chapter 5: SU(2/1) Super-Unification of the Standard Model and Non Commutative Geometry -- 5.1 Irreducible Gauge Theory of a Consolidated Salam-Weinberg Model -- 5.2 Geometrical Gauge Theory of Ghost and Goldstone Fields and of Ghost Symmetries -- 5.3 Internal Supersymmetry and Unification -- 5.4 Sequential Internal Supersymmetry -- 5.5 SU(7/1) Internal Superunification: A Renormalizable SU(7) x U(l) with Factorizable Pomeron -- 5.6 Anomaly-Free Sequential Superunification -- 5.7 Exterior Gauging of an Internal Supersymmetry and SU(2/1) Quantum Asthenodynamics -- 5.8 Internal Supergroup Prediction for the Goldstone-Higgs Particle Mass -- 5.9 Superconnections and Internal Supersymmetry Dynamics -- 5.10 BRST Quantization of SU(2/1) Electroweak Theory in the Superconnection Approach and the Higgs Meson Mass -- 5.11 Internal Supersymmetry Superconnections and Non-Commutative Geometry -- 5.12 A Superconnection for Riemannian Gravity as Spontaneously Broken SL(4 R) Gauge Theory -- Chapter 6: Spinor Representations of GL(N R) and Chromogravity -- 6.1 Gravitational Interaction of Hadrons: Band-Spinor Representations of GL(n R) -- 6.2 Spinor-Type Fields with Linear Affine and General Coordinate Transformations -- 6.3 Spinorial Infinite Equations Fitting Metric-Affine Gravity -- 6.4 Algebra and Physics of the Unitary Multiplicity-Free Representations of SL(4 R) -- 6.5 SL(4 R) Classification for Hadrons -- 6.6 GL(4 R) Group-Topology Covariance and Curved-Space Spinors -- 6.7 QCD as an Effective Strong Gravity -- 6.8 Derivation of the Interacting Boson Model from Quantum Chromodynamics.

6.9 Proof of Pseudo-Gravity as QCD Approximation for the Hadron IR Region and J ~ M2 Regge Trajectories -- 6.10 Wigner Analysis and Casimir Operators of SA(4 R) -- 6.11 Chromogravity: QCD-Induced Diffeomorphisms -- 6.12 Inter-Hadron QCD-Induced Diffeomorphisms from a Radial Expansion of the Gauge Field -- 6.13 Nuclear Physics Implications of the Spin 2 Multiplet -- Chapter 7: Metric-Affine Gravity -- 7.1 Hypermomentum in Hadron Dynamics and in Gravitation -- 7.2 Gravity is the Gauge Theory of the Parallel-Transport Modification of the Poincare Group -- 7.3 Gravity from Symmetry Breakdown of a Gauge Affine Theory -- 7.4 BRST Transformations for an Affine Gauge Model of Gravity with Local GL(4 R) Symmetry -- 7.5 Renormalization of Gauge-Affine Gravity -- 7.6 Avoiding Degenerate Coframes in an Affine Gauge Approach to Quantum Gravity -- 7.7 Test Matter in a Spacetime with Nonmetricity -- 7.8 Gauge Theories of Gravity -- Chapter 8: Strings Branes and Other Extendons -- 8.1 The Two-Dimensional Quantum Conformal Group Strings and Lattices -- 8.2 Spinors for Superstrings in a Generic Curved Space -- 8.3 Superstrings in a Generic Supersymmetric Curved Space -- 8.4 Curved Space-Time and Supersymmetry Treatments for p-Extendons -- 8.5 Classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalisms for Elementary Extendons -- 8.6 Duality Crossing and MacLane's Coherence -- Chapter 9: Various Topics in Astrophysics -- 9.1 Expansion as an Energy Source in Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources -- 9.2 The Lagging-Core Model for Quasi-Stellar Sources -- 9.3 Unconventional and Pathological World Models -- 9.4 Inflationary Cosmogony Copernican Relevelling and Extended Reality -- 9.5 Heuristic Methodology for Horizons in GR and Cosmology -- Chapter 10: Foundations of Physics -- 10.1 The Arrows of Time.

10.2 Consequences of Unitarity in Some Models of CP Violation -- 10.3 Time-Reversal Symmetry Violation and the Oscillating Universe -- 10.4 Time-Reversal Violation and the Arrows of Time -- 10.5 The Sign and Micro-Origin of Complexity as Entropy (Conjectured Resolution of a Paradox) -- 10.6 Classical Geometric Resolution of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox -- 10.7 The Problems in Quantum Foundations in the Light of Gauge Theories -- 10.8 Can EPR Non-Locality be Geometrical? -- 10.9 Localizability and the Planck Mass -- 10.10 Decoherence Plus Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown Generate the "Ohmic" View of the State-Vector Collapse -- 10.11 Classical to Quantum: A Generalized Phase Transition -- Chapter 11: Philosophy and Sociology of Science: Evolution and History -- 11.1 Concrete Versus Abstract Theoretical Models -- 11.2 Symmetry Entropy and Complexity -- 11.3 Cosmological Surrealism: More than "Eternal Reality" is Needed -- 11.4 Pythagoreanism in Atomic Nuclear and Particle Physics -- 11.5 Paradigm Completion for Generalized Evolutionary Theory with Application to Epistemology -- 11.6 Evolutionary Epistemology and Invalidation.