Farewell to Reality (53 page)

second law of

thermodynamics and
246—8

war
250—2
,
256
,
260

X-ray emission and
257

blueshift
99
,
109

Bohm, David
210
,
211

Bohr, Niels
31
,
39—40
,
42
,
43
,
45
,
50
,
51
,
55
,
130
,
182
,
184
,
215
,
251

Boltzmann, Ludwig
242
,
243

Bondi, Hermann
112

bootstrap theory
180
,
288

‘Bose condensation'
34

Bose, Satyendra Nath
34

bosino
166
,
167
,
173

boson
34
,
65
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
77
n,
117
,
118
,
130
,
131
,
136
n,
139
,
140
160
,
161
,
162
,
163—5
,
166
,
167
,
169
,
173
,
174
,
178
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
194
,
195
,
204
,
229
,
282
,
228
,
298
,
300
see also
Higgs boson

Bostrom, Nick
277—8
,
281—2

Bousso, Raphael
223—4

Brahe, Tycho
13
,
13
n,
14

branes and braneworlds
16
,
198—202
,
203
,
204
,
226—7
,
228
,
229
,
230
,
254—6
,
261
,
286

British Association for the

Advancement of Science
298

Broglie, Louis de
39
,
54
,
210—11

Brookhaven National

Laboratory, New York
75

Brooks, Michael
xiii
,
xiii
n,
16
n

Brout, Robert
69
,
70

brown dwarf stars
124

Butterworth, Jon
11

Calabi—Yau space
192—6
,
200
,
204
,
224
,
225
,
226
,
227
,
229
,
282
,
230

Calabi, Eugenio
193—4

California, University of, Santa

Barbara
194
,
250

California Institute of

Technology (Caltech)
188—9

Cambridge University
206
,
219
,
227
,
247
,
267

Candelas, Philip
193
,
194

‘canonical quantization'
146

carbon coincidence
262—5
,
278
,
279

Cartan, Elié
60

Carter, Brandon
247
,
267
,
268
,
269
,
270

Cartwright, Nancy
296—7

Casimir, Hendrik
41
,
42
,
143

CERN
185
,
190
,
288

Large Electron-Positron (LEP)

Collider
176
,
177

Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
10
,
10
n,
12
,
22
,
59
n,
72
,
73
,
117
,
139
,
163
,
169
,
177
,
178
,
180
,
203—4
,
208
,
288
,
299
,
300

Cerro Tololo Inter-American

Observatory, Chile
126

CFT/AdS duality
256

Chadwick, James
56

Chien Shiung Wu
66

‘Chinese room' thought

experiment
285—6

Clarke, Arthur C.
40—1

CMS (Compact Muon

Solenoid)
10
,
10
n,
72
,
73
,
178

coherence theory of truth
259—60

collapsing universe
105—6

colour force
76—7

Columbia University, New York
xiv
,
74
,
174

Columbia,
Space Shuttle
127

Coma cluster
123

compactification
184
,
192
,
193
,
202
,
226
,
229
,
230
,
282

Compton, Arthur
30

computing, quantum
240—1

conformal field theory (CFT)
256

contraction of length
89—91

Copenhagen interpretation
30—1
,
32
,
36
,
39
,
40
,
42—5
,
50
,
184
,
215
,
216
,
218

Copernican Principle
22—4
,
105
n,
131
,
148
,
261
,
267
,
269
,
272
,
278
,
281

Copernicus, Nicolaus
13
,
24
,
217
,
222
,
267

correspondence theory of truth
259—60

Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
121
,
122
,
124

cosmic inflation
117—20
,
124
,
150
,
221—4

cosmic landscape
224—6
,
229
,
230—1
,
261
,
269
,
281
,
283
,
293—4

Cosmic Landscape, The
(Susskind)
269
,
281
,
283
,
293—4

cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation
103
,
112—15
,
117
,
120
,
121
,
127—8
,
228
,
230
,
257
,
286

cosmological principle
105
,
105
n

anthropic
x
,
261—83

cosmology, quantum
216

Cox, Brian
xiii

Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)
179

D-brane
199—201
,
203
,
226
,
254—6

d'Espagnat, Bernard
6

dark energy
104
,
124—5
,
127
,
128
,
143
,
149
,
218
n,
228—9
,
255
,
261

dark matter
104
,
122—4
,
127
,
127
n,
128
,
141
,
142
,
143
,
170
173
,
174—5
,
178—9
,
203
,
208
,
218
n,
228—9
,
261

David X. Li
289—90

Davies, Paul
274
,
275

Dawkins, Richard
276—7

de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave

theory
210—11

de Sitter, Willem
255

Debye, Pieter
30

decoherence
212—14
,
217
,
241

Descartes, René
262

Deutsch, David
217—18
,
240

DeWitt, Bruce
216
,
217

Dick, Philip K.
6

Dicke, Robert
114
,
115
,
116—17

dimensions, hidden extra
55
,
59
,
94
,
104
,
146
,
158
,
159
,
159
n,
160
,
183
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
188
,
190
,
191
,
192—203
,
205
,
206
,
211
,
224—30
,
253
,
261
,
265
,
266
,
282
,
286

Dimopoulos, Savas
165
,
200

Dirac, Paul
45
,
59—60
,
61
,
63
,
64
,
79
,
166
,
167
,
182
,
206

Discourse on Method
(Descartes)
262

Discover
237

Discovery Institute, Seattle
270—1
,
272

Doppler effect
108—9
,
109
n

Duff, Michael
196—7
,
198

Duhem, Pierre
12

Dvali, Gita
200

Dyson, Freeman
63

E = mc
²
59
,
62
,
91—3
,
144
,
248

Eddington, Arthur
18
,
18
n,
97

Edinburgh International Book

Festival, 2011
xiii

Edinburgh University
69

Ehrenfest, Paul
184

Einstein, Albert
xiii
,
1
,
7
,
15
,
17
,
27
,
38
,
54
,
102
,
116
,
129
,
136
,
144
,
155
,
182
,
192
,
194
,
208
,
209
,
211
,
234
,
255
,
261
,
262
,
284

challenges Bohr with series of

‘thought experiments'
42—6
,
50
,
55

contraction of length and
89—91

cosmological constant and
104—6
,
120
,
125
,
127
,
143
,
145
,
261
,
278

criticism of quantum theory
38
,
42—6
,
49

dilation of time and
87—9

E = mc
²
59
,
62
,
91—3
,
144
,
248

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen

thought experiment and
43—6
,
47
,
50
,
51

‘equivalence principle'
96

expansion of universe,

attitude towards idea of
107
,
108

general theory of relativity
17—18
,
30
,
43
,
55
,
81
,
95—101
,
104—6
,
107
,
145—8
,
182
,
193
,
235
,
247
,
258

gravity and curvature of

spacetime
94—7

light quantum hypothesis
28—30
,
31
,
91
,
130

redshift and
98—9

Schrödinger's cat and
132—3

search for way to unify

gravity and

electromagnetism
182—3
,
184

simultaneity and speed of light
84—7

Spacetime and
93—101

special theory of relativity
30
,
34
,
42
,
55
,
58—9
,
59
n,
70
n,
81
,
84—7
,
91
,
96
,
99—100
,
134

‘spooky action-at-a-distance',

calls collapse of the

wavefunction
42
,
46

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen

thought experiment
43—6
,
47
,
50
,
51

Ekpyrotic universe
228

electro-nuclear force
118
,
139
,
160
,
170

electro-weak epoch
118
,
119
,
139

electro-weak force
67—8
,
69
,
70—1
,
72
,
73
,
77
,
117
,
118
,
130
,
139
,
140
158
,
160
,
169
,
177
,
200
,
288
,
298
,
300

electromagnetism
28
,
55—6
,
57
,
61
,
170

Big Bang and
103

fluctuations of field in a

vacuum
41—2

forces of nature and
55—6

goldilocks enigma and
265—6

quantum electrodynamics

(QED), formal theory of
63—4
,
77
,
136
,
145
,
158
,
159
,
198

radiation and light
3
,
27
,
28

search for theory of

unification with gravity
182—4
,
185
,
192
,
200

strong nuclear force and
see