Motion Mountain

Motion Mountain is an introductory physics textbook by Christoph Schiller. It is about 2000pp long, and its 6 volumes are made available online at no cost.
The author has given the following reason for his writing Motion Mountain:

Across all languages, physics is the science with the worst textbooks. This project wants to change this, by producing a simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously entertained, motivated and challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and present ideas about unification are included. The subtitle of the text, The Adventure of Physics, sums up these three aspects.

Volume 1 covers mechanics and thermodynamics; 2, special and general relativity; 3, electrodynamics and optics; 4, quantum theory; 5, advanced quantum theory with nuclear and particle physics; and 6, the author's speculative theory, called the Strand Model, proposing to unify quantum theory and general relativity yielding all the particles from the standard model and their interactions except the Higgs boson.
Criticism
Although Motion Mountain was written as an introductory university text, it contains many assertions contradicted by accepted science. Among these are claiming that:
* There are coordinate "independent" limits on coordinate system "dependent" quantities such as energy or momentum;
* GR can be derived from postulating a maximum force;
* Motion Mountain does not modify GR. Yet it also predicts a fundamental momentum limit in violation of the local Poincaré invariance of GR;
* The wave function in quantum mechanics can be interpreted as a literal smearing of particles instead of a probability distribution for measurements;
* The fundamental interactions of the universe have no speed limit and are invariant under time reversal and due to being purely stochastic, all while not contradicting Special Relativity and the observed violations of CP, and T;
* The Standard Model of particle physics is exact without the Higgs mechanism, while also predicting modifications to the fundamental interactions at the TeV scale;
* The author's "Strand Model," built from fluctuating but purely stochastic "strands," is a valid candidate theory for unifying GR and quantum theory.
Funding
The author, Christoph Schiller, has received grant money to further the Motion Mountain free textbook project. Since May 2007, work has been supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

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