Unexpected Similarities of the Universe with Atomic and Molecular Systems: What a Beautiful World

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Reasons from astrophysics and atomic physics for our world to be three-dimensional

Chapter 3. More on the stability of atoms and planetary systems in our three-dimensional world: Why do we live longer than a tiny fraction of a second?

Chapter 4. Crossing of the micro- and macro-worlds: similarities between planet-star or satellite-planet systems and giant (Rydberg) atoms of the diameter twice the size of human hair

Chapter 5. Magic of numbers: fine-tuned Universe?

Chapter 6. Similarities between the motion of a satellite with a constant acceleration and the Stark effect in Rydberg atoms

Chapter 7. Similarities between the motion of a satellite around the oblate Earth and Rydberg atoms in a high-frequency laser field and heavy hydrogenic ions, including the description using uncommon “2-dimensional” numbers.

Chapter 8. The “Sun” going back and force: similarities between a planet around binary stars or a star-planet-moon system and one-electron Rydberg quasimolecules

Chapter 9. Stormy relationship between black holes and atomic/quantum physics

Chapter 10. Atomic nuclei beyond the standard model: an unknown matter not only in the Universe?

Chapter 11. Concluding remarks on the harmony and beauty of micro- and macro-worlds: symmetries ruling everything

Appendix A. Overview of the generalized classical dynamics

Appendix B. Super-generalized Runge-Lenz vector

Appendix C. The classical Stark effect

Appendix D. Derivation of the effective potential energy for a hydrogen Rydberg atom in a

high-frequency laser field