Localizability and Space in Quantum Physics

Contents: Introduction.- Historical Sketch on the Nature of Light.- The Correspondence Principle, the Wave Corpuscle Duality, the Complementarity Principle and the Slit Experiment.- The Spin Quantization Problem.- Localizability. The Photon Scandal. Quantization Helpless!- A Position Operator for the Photon. Giving up the Complementary Principle.- Departing from the Newton-Wigner-Wightman Axioms.- Is Minkowski Space-time Suitable for Particle Physics?- Appendix A. The Symplectic Structure of Coadjoint Orbits.- Appendix B. The Quantization of the Sphere S2.- Appendix C. The Angular Momentum of an Electric Charge in the Monopole Field (an Application of the Noether Theorem).- Appendix D. Non Localizability of the Classical Massless Particle with Helicity.- Appendix E. The Maxwell Equations and the Poincaré Group.- Appendix F. The Zitterbewegung. The Pryce-Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation.- Quotations.- Index of Names.