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As a first step a unification of the gravitational with the electromagnetic interaction within a classical framework is proposed. It is based on a V5-geometry, with x5 = q/m. The sole source term is mechanical stress energy, positioned along x5. The trajectories of test-bodies are placed in V4 (x5 = const)-slices. The resulting field equation couples a geometric G-tensor to mechanical stress energy, its momentum with respect to V5 and the change of this momentum with proper time τ. The following step proceeds to the quantization of space-time to enable the formalization of elementary particles und strong interaction. This is complimented by the inclusion of spin and the weak force, leading finally to a grand total equation, the stationary version of which corresponds to Schroedinger´s equation, the instationary version to the Einstein equation of General Relativity.

There is a possible connection between energy technologies and climate change. The set point and basis for the following discussion are: there is climate change and there are considerations to deliberately and artificially influence it. In the context of pro-active interventions in the climate system there are two fundamentally different technological approaches, which will be explained in detail: causal removal technologies and technologies for symptomatic compensation of climate change. What will be the consequences of such acts? What are the possibilities and associated risks? How do physical processes look like in this context? What are the ethical aspects touched upon?

This chapter contains all major energy utilization technologies. They comprise steam power plants driven by coal, gas and oil and nuclear power, furthermore solar power plants and photovoltaic, wind power, bio mass and bio gas, geothermal heat, hydrodynamic power including barrages and pumped storage power plants, a proposal for rain power stations, combined heat and power generation and finally tidal power stations. For each energy carrier its origin is explained.

This chapter contains the most important physical basics and laws relevant to energy utilization. It comprises electricity, magnetism, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics and gas dynamics, as well as atomic and nuclear physics including atomic and nuclear models and the relevant reactions.

Time and space are fundamental concepts in physics, but also in people’s everyday lives. If one wants to narrate someone’s biography and discuss his achievements, this can only be done by taking the relevant historical and geographical background into consideration.

We have examined the motivations which induced Johannes Kepler to travel the way he did, both physically and spiritually, finally consummated in the legacy he left behind in his major works. Kepler himself was convinced that he had deciphered God’s blueprint for the harmony of his creation. In this respect, Kepler stood at the summit of all the combined efforts of those that preceded him in the history of science. And to this day, he has not been surpassed by any other.

The order of things, as outlined in Chap. 2, seemed to have been one impetus for Kepler’s quest. However, this went hand in hand with his attempt to discover what might be lying beneath it, that is, what was really causing it—in other words, the world behind the world as we perceive it through our limited senses.

Some years ago I gave a lecture entitled “Ordnung und Chaos in den Naturwissenschaften am Beispiel der Physikgeschichte” (Order and Chaos in the Natural Sciences Using the Example of the History of Physics). I went through the main cosmological protagonists from Anaximander to Eratosthenes, Aristarchus, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, then through Copernicus, Galileo and, of course, Johannes Kepler, to Newton. At one stage a student approached me and asked my opinion as to whom I would regard as the most important of them with regard to the subject I was teaching. She proposed that it would certainly be Kepler. I answered with a nod.

The final version of Kepler’s horsocope for his new master contained a serious and very specific warning for the beginning of the year 1634. It was set to occur in or near a castle in the extreme west of what is today the Czech Republic.

Ulm is situated on the Danube at the frontier between Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria, at the southern edge of the Swabian Alps, some 170 km north of Munich, and today counts more than 125,000 inhabitants.