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Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.

Absolute motion, 142, 183

Absolute non-motion, 141–47, 151–53, 184, 209

Absolute time, 166

Absolute truth, 41–42

Acceleration, 178

gravity and, 186

negative, 186–87

positive, 186–87

Accelerators

electron, 226

feeder, 226

particle, 215, 217–18, 219, 226

Admissions, 303

Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist
(ed. Schilpp), 262
n

Allowed transitions, 302

Amplitude, 61

Analytic geometry, 337

Anderson, Carl, 235

Angular momentum, 231–34

Antimuon, 330

Anti-particles, 235, 239–40, 242, 243, 275, 276

Anti-protons, 263, 264

Aristotelianism, 72

Aristotle, 23, 287

Aspect, Alain, xxi, 327–28

Astronauts, 23

Astronomy, 53, 201–204

Ptolemaic, 217
n

Atomic bombs, 175

Atomic level, 34

Atomic oscillators, 53–54, 55

Atomic phenomena, 21

Atomic reactors, 175

Atoms, 53–54, 114

Bohr’s theory on, 14–16, 114, 119

construction of, 12–13

ground state of, 14–15

the new physics and, 119–20

“Auguries of Innocence” (Blake), 167

Authentic power, xxix–xxx

Avatamsaka Sutra, 266
n

Awareness movement, 173

Baryon number, 234
n

Baryons, 228, 234, 235, 270–71, 273

Be Here Now
(Dass), 173

Being, Non-being and, 341

Bell, J. S., xxi, 75, 313

Bell Telephone Laboratories, 107

Bell’s theorem, 252
n
, 285, 313–14, 322–26, 329–33, 339

quantum theory and, 322–23, 325–26, 329, 331, 334–35

“Beneath Time” (Finkelstein), 311

Bently, Richard, 25

Bible, 97, 173–74

Big Bang theory, 329
n

Binary star system, 207

Birkbeck College, 221, 339

Birkhoff, Garrett, 292–93, 302, 310, 311

Black-body radiation, 54–55, 106, 233, 344

Black hole singularity, 206–207

Black hole theory, 205–209

Blake, William, 167

Blofeld, John, 266
n

Bohm, David, xxi, 221, 316, 327, 329–30, 339–43

Bohr, Niels, xix, xx, xxv, 14–16, 28, 38, 40
n
, 41
n
, 57, 72, 109, 118, 125, 224

complementarity and, 41
n
, 103, 106, 223–24
n
, 338, 347

Einstein and, 290

Planck’s constant and, 233

planetary model of the atom, 110, 114–15, 117, 119–20, 223

on quantum mechanics, 28, 125–26, 289, 337
n

theory on atoms, 14–16

Boltzmann’s constant, 58
n

Born, Max, xx, 75, 117–18, 126, 232, 289

Bound, greatest lower, 308

Boyle, Robert, 36

Boyle’s Law, 36

Bubble-chamber physics, 218
n

Bubble chambers, 215, 218, 221, 224, 251

Buddha, 264, 344

Buddhism, xxxiv, 88, 91, 174, 201, 229, 241, 262–63, 264–66, 267–68, 312, 342–43, 346–47

Mahayana, 266, 267–68

particle physics and, 262–63, 264–66

physics and, 311

Tantric, 220–21, 346–47

Tibetan, 312, 343, 347

Zen, 132, 229

Buddhist Text Translation Society, 266
n

Calculus, logical, 288

Cameras, computer-triggered, 218

“Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?” (Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen), 317

Carbon, 120

Causality, 43, 70, 125–26, 286–87

Causes, local, principle of, 320, 325, 329, 331–36

CERN, 313

Chain reactions, 175

Charge, 234
n
, 335, 270

Charm, 217
n
, 234
n

Chemical reactions, human reactions and, 50–51

Chew, Professor G. F., 266
n
, 347

Chlorine, 50

Christ, 344

Church, the

Newton and, 23–24, 30

physics and, 24

Circles, 190, 193–96, 198

circumferences, 194–96

radii, 193–96

Circumferences, 194–95

Classical logic, 291–93, 298–99, 302, 306–307, 311

subatomic particles and, 291–93

Classical physics, xxv, 53–54, 150–51, 289–90

quantum mechanics and, 94–96, 125

Classical transformation laws, 140, 152, 153–54, 164–65

Clauser, John, xxi 326, 329, 332, 335

Clauser-Freedman experiment, xxi 323
n
, 326–27, 329

Coherent superposition, 299–300

Collapse of the wave function, 82–85, 95–96, 330–31
n

Color, Planck’s constant and, 56–57

Communications, superluminal, 326–28

Complementarity, 41
n
, 103, 105, 106, 223–24
n
, 338, 347

Compton, Authur, 103–105

Compton scattering, 104–105

Computers, 26, 215, 217

Computer-triggered cameras, 218

Confucius, 169

Congruence, 180
n

Consciousness, physics and, xxviii, xxx, 88, 92–93, 96

Conservation laws, 175–77, 217, 269–71

subatomic particles and, 268–71

Conservation laws of family numbers, 270

Conservation laws of mass-energy, 175, 176, 248, 249, 255, 261–62, 269, 270

Constant of proportionality, 63

Continuums, 167–68

Contrafactual definiteness, 332–33, 336

Co-ordinate systems, 138–41, 180–82, 187
n
, 196–97, 202

inertial, 138–41, 182–84, 186, 194, 198

non-inertial, 196

Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, xx, 40–44, 76, 88, 92, 93, 94–95, 317, 336, 347

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 101, 147, 213–15, 217
n

Correlation, 78–79

cosmic radiation, 158

Counter physics, 218
n

cummings, e. e., 291

Cyclotrons, 236

Cygnus X-1, 207

D particles, 228
n

Dass, Ram, 173

Davisson, Clinton, xx, 107

Davisson-Germer experiment, 107, 109

De Broglie, Louis, xx, 106–107, 109, 110, 114, 115, 117–18, 122, 233, 245

De Broglie’s equation, 107
n
, 110

Decay times, 240

Deceleration, 178

Definiteness, 336

contrafactual, 332–33, 336

Deflection, starlight, 203–204

Descartes, René, 12, 24, 26, 141, 337

Detectors, photon, 82.
See also
Photomultiplier tubes

Determinism, 37, 333, 336

Diffraction, 63–66, 134

electron, 107–108

Dirac, Paul, xx, 103
n
, 222, 234–35, 239, 251, 263

Discontinuous structure of nature, 52–53

Distributivity, law of, 292–93, 307–10

Doppler effect, 144
n

Double exposure, 299

Double-slit experiment, 66–87, 92, 105, 110, 314

See also
Young’s double-slit experiment

Doublets, 306–307

Downhill interactions, 269

Duration, 26

Dylan, Bob, 133

Earth

the moon and, 27

motion and, 137–39, 145–48

Eastern literature

quantum mechanics and, 101

relativity and, 101

Eastern religions, 342–48

Eddington, Arthur, 189, 192
n

Einstein, Albert, xix, xx, xxiv, xxv, 9, 25, 57–60, 118, 121, 142, 216, 290, 316–21, 341

Bohr and, 290

general theory of relativity, 25, 94, 134, 179–209, 290, 311, 344

astronomy and, 201–205

black hole theory, 205–209

equations of, 200

gravity and acceleration, 186–209

Newtonian physics and, 203–204

principle of equivalence, 183, 186, 187

photon theory of light, 72, 104, 106–107, 110, 133–34

Planck and, 59, 72

Planck’s constant, 233

quantum mechanics and, 19, 75, 76, 337
n

quantum nature of light, 57–60, 68, 71

quantum theory and, 320–21

special theory of relativity, 35
n
, 58, 133, 134–78, 181, 183, 187, 219, 290, 318
n
, 344

absolute non-motion and, 151–55

mass-energy relationship, 173–78

Newtonian physics and, 166, 177

principle of constancy of the velocity of light and, 151–55, 164–65

principle of relativity and, 152–55

Pythagorean theory and, 169–73

spacecraft analogy, 156–57

space-time interval, 171–73

Twin Paradox of, 156–57

thought experiments of, 162–64, 181–86, 193–96, 318

time and space, 166–67, 244

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) effect, 252
n
, 316–26, 334
n

Einstein-Rosen bridges, 207

Einstein’s equation, 107
n
, 174–75, 219
n
, 227
n

Electrodynamics, quantum, 251

Electromagnetic field, 150–51

Electromagnetic force, 230, 251–54, 260–61

Electromagnetic radiation, 53–54, 62, 105, 153, 207

Electromagnetic waves, 62, 318–19

Electron accelerators, 226

Electron cloud, 120–21

Electron diffraction, 107–108

Electron mass, 226–27

Electron volts, 227

Electronic orbits, 57
n

Electron-positron annihilation, 239, 242

Electrons, 13, 21, 22, 34, 53–54, 226–27

energy levels of, 114, 116

gamma rays and, 124

waves and, 107–109, 110–14

X-rays and, 104

Elementary particle theory, 21

Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
(Huang), 8

Emissions, 303–306

Emulsion physics, 218
n

Energy, xxix

frequency and, 63, 104

kinetic, 104, 162, 219, 227, 270

light and, 186

mass and, 35, 136, 173–78, 186, 200, 219–20, 227

mechanical, 176

organic, physics and, 49

quanta and, 106

stellar, 174, 322

thermal, 176

Energy absorption, 57

Energy emission, 57

Energy packets, 56–57

Energy radiation, 53

Enlightenment, 263, 311

physics and, 283–84

Entropy, 246

increasing, 246

maximal, 246

Epilepsy, 42

Epistemology, 288

Equivalence, principle of, 183, 186, 187

Esalen Institute, 4–5, 348

Eta particles, 259

Ether, theory of, 145–46

Euclid, 180
n
, 191, 193, 194

Euclidean geometry, 180
n
, 191–96, 311

Euclidean space, 171
n

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 313

Event horizon, 206–207

Everett, Hugh, III, 91–92, 94
n

Everett-Wheeler-Graham theory.
See
Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics

Exclusion principle, Pauli, 114, 251–52
n

Experience, symbols and, 290, 301, 310

Experimental physics, 285
n

Fails, locality, 329

Family numbers, conservation laws of, 270

Feeder accelerator, 226

Feynman, Richard, xxi, 239–43, 262

Feynman diagrams, 239–43, 250, 252, 256–59, 263, 266–67, 275

Feynman perturbation theory, 248
n

Fields, matter and, 223

5th Solvay Congress, 40
n

Finkelstein, David, xxi, 4, 205, 206, 219, 272, 290, 291–92, 293, 299, 300, 302, 310–11, 348

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce), 272

Fission, 175

FitzGerald, George Francis, xix, 148–49, 154–55

FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction, 149

Flower Garland Sutra
, 264–66

Forbidden transitions, 302–303

Force

strong, 252–54, 259–61

weak, 260–61

See also
Gravity

Ford, Kenneth, 225, 263

Four-dimensional space-time continuum, 168–69, 193, 199

Fourth dimension, 168–69

Frames of reference.
See
Co-ordinate systems

Free will, 28, 336

Freedman, Stuart, xxi, 326, 329, 332, 335

Frequency, 26, 61–63

energy and, 63, 104

Freud, Sigmund, 43

Friction, 23, 176

Fundamental Physics Group, 335, 336

Fusion, 174–75

laser, 285

Galaxies, 199, 260