Theory of the electron. A theory of matter from START (Q5956195)

START means space-time-action relating theory and is taken as the central point of first principles from which a general relativistic electron theory is to be derived in the present book. These first principles are developed in chapter 2 using mathematical tools presented in chapter seven. Both these chapters are not easy to read and it is questionable whether they are suitable for a textbook. Chapter 3 sums easier to read but it is not clear how its proposals follow from the first principles in chapter two. This also holds true for chapters 4, 5, and 6, where several aspects of the theory of the electron using multivector functions, spinors, twistors, screwer and mexors. But certainly the reader will be surprised to see how all these objects are related to each other in unsuspected ways. Chapter 6 provides a nice account and improvement of Królikowski theory (W. Królikowski, Phys. Rev. D 45, 3222--3227 (1992)) of mass generation of elementary particles and geometrical confinement using multivector algebra methods, which eventually is worth to be more known, since there is no sign of the Higgs particle until now. Returning again to the contents of Chapter 7, it contains also a small historical note about geometrical algebras and calculus. It is said that: 'The history of vector algebra and then of vector geometry is usually known (see the book by Crowe, 1992) but often misunderstood, and characterized by, numerous `rediscovery'. With this respect my last comment is that the history of quaternions is incomplete and it is not mentioned that Rodrigues' discovery was before Hamilton. I did not found this information on a family book of the records. But this is a well documented fact. See, e.g., (S. L. Altmann, Rotations, Quaternions and Double Groups, Claredon Press, Oxford, (1986; Zbl 0683.20037)), although it is a really not a well known fact.