Farewell to Reality (56 page)

Copenhagen interpretation

and
30—1

Einstein's light quantum

hypothesis
28—30
,
31

exchange of photon between

electrons as experience of

force
62

have no mass
27
,
32
,
33

interference
28

phase
27
,
32
,
33

photino
166
,
172

photoelectric effect
29
,
30

polarization
34—5
,
40

quantum fluctuations of the

vacuum
40—2

quantum number
34

spin
27
,
32—5

spooky-at-a-distance and
42—6

teleportation of
49

uncertainty principle and
38—40

‘virtual'
41
,
42
,
62

wave behaviour
28—31
see also

wave behaviour

physics:

the end of
297—8

fairy-tale
see
fairy-tale physics

‘ironic'
299

standard model of particle

physics
16
,
55
,
57—8
,
75
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
103
,
124
,
129
,
136
,
141
,
146
,
147
,
148
,
155
,
157—8
,
164
,
165
,
170
,
171
,
186
,
188
,
229
,
261

Physics World
296—7

pilot waves
210—11

pion
64
,
65
,
77
,
161
,
185

Planck epoch
139

Planck length
193
,
195
,
201
,
249
n,
251

Planck mass
139
,
140
,
169
,
200

Planck scale
145
,
147
,
168
,
169

Planck, Max
29
,
30

Planck's constant
136

Plato
5—6
,
237
,
254

allegory of a cave
5—6
,
254

Podolsky, Boris
43
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
50
,
51

Poincaré, Henri
92

point particle
16
,
19
,
147
,
186
,
194

polarizing film/filters,

arrangement of
40
n,
43
,
47
n,
48
n,
49
,
51
,
210

Polkinghorne, John
274
,
275

Popper, Karl
18
,
293—4

Popperazzi
293—4

positron
8
,
60
,
61
,
64
,
160
,
161
,
166
,
175

Pound, Robert
99

Powell, Cecil
64

power spectrum
127—8

A Prayer for Owen Meany
(Irving)
140—1

primary quality
258

primeval atom
110
,
111

Princeton String Quartet
192
,
200

Princeton University
76
,
115
,
124
,
187
,
188—9
,
190—1
,
192
,
193
,
215
,
216
,
228
,
247
,
267

projection postulate
209—10

protons
10
,
56—7
,
65
,
67
,
71
,
72
,
74
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
109
,
111
,
113
,
124
,
132
,
137
,
138
,
139
,
160
,
161
,
162
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
208
,
263
,
264
n,
265
,
266

Prussian Academy of Sciences
30
,
100
,
145—6
,
182

Psillos, Stathis
295

Ptolemaic system
23

QCD (quantum

chromodynamics)
77
,
136
,
141
,
158
,
159
,
188
,
255

QED (quantum electrodynamics)

63—4
,
77
,
136
,
145
,
158
,
159
,
198

QFD (quantum flavour

dynamics)
77
,
136
,
158
,
159

quantum field theory
60—2

quantum measurement:

collapse of the wavefunction

and
209—10
,
211—12

cosmic landscape
224—6
,
269
,
281
,
283

dealing with the fallout
231—3

decoherence and the

irreversible act of

amplification
211—14

eternal inflation
221—4

Everett's ‘relative state'

formulation of quantum

theory
215
,
216

hidden variables and
210

many worlds
216—21

pilot waves
210—11

quantum particles, first
28

reality check
219—21
,
229—31

universe next door
226—9

von Neuman's ‘projection

postulate'
209—10

quantum physics
under individual

theory area

quantum probability
35—8
,
47
,
131—5

quarks
ix
,
x
,
8
,
16
,
73—9
,
118
,
120
,
130
,
136
,
137
,
140
,
160—1
,
166
,
167
,
169
,
170
,
177
,
178
,
180
,
185
,
185
n,
234
,
235
,
238
n,
286
,
295
,
296

Quinn, Helen
118
,
141
,
170

Rabi, Isidor
64

radiation:

cosmic microwave

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

Hawking
142
,
143
,
247—50
,
251
,
252
,
257
,
258

pressure
42

radiative corrections
139—40
,
169

Ramond, Pierre
187

Randall, Lisa
177
,
201
,
205—6
,
226

reality:

as a metaphysical concept
1
,
2
,
7
,
8
,
21

entity realism
8

evolutionary selection

pressures lead to

development of a sensory

apparatus that delivers a

finely tuned representation of
4—5

is simply electrical signals

interpreted by your brain
2—4

Plato's allegory of a cave and
5—6

point of view and
4—5

Reality Principle
8
,
21
,
53
,
129
,
234

red rose, experience of and
3—4

things-in-themselves and

things-as-they-are-

measured, difference

between
5
,
6—8
,
24
,
39—40
,
51—3
,
129
,
202
,
234
,
265

veiled
6—8

Rebka, Glen
99

recombination
103
,
113
,
117
,
128

redshift
98—9
,
109
,
126—7

Rees, Martin
231
,
265
,
276
,
277

Reiss, Adam
126
,
127

‘relative state' formulation of

quantum theory
214—16

relativistic mass
92
,
93

relativistic theory
59

relativistic time dilation
89

Representing and Intervening

(Hacking)
8

Republic, The
(Plato)
4

‘result' assumption
50
,
51
,
52

Robinson, David
247

Rohm, Ryan
192

Roll, Peter
114
,
115

Rosen, Nathan
43
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
50
,
51

Rosenfeld, Léon
45

Rubin, Vera
123

Russell, Bertrand
18
,
21

Rutherford, Ernest
56—7

Salam, Abdus
71
,
117

Sandage, Allan
110

scalar
60
,
165
,
166
,
174
,
186
,
222

Scherk, Joël
188—9
,
190

Schmidt, Brian
126

Schrödinger, Erwin
58

Schrödinger's cat
131—5
,
211
,
213

Schwarz, John
187—9
,
190
,
191
,
192

Schwinger, Julian
63
,
67

science:

abstract, importance of the
16—17

authorized version of
25—53

building theories from facts
13—16

definition of, Science

Council, UK, 2009
9
,
24

intuition, importance of

15—16
,
130
,
164

mistakes and bias of

vulnerabilities of scientists
9—10
,
14—15

no facts without theory
11—12

post-empirical
xii

predominance of fairy-tale

physics in popular
xii—xii

see also
fairy-tale

physics

putting theories to the test
17—21

theorizing as a creative process
14—15

truth is transient
131

verisimilitude, scientific

theories as possessing a
21
,
24

wrongdoing quickly found

out in
9—11

Scientific Method, The, reality,

truth and
1—24

scientific realists
7

Scopes, John Thomas
271

Searle, John
285—6

second law of thermodynamics
242—8
,
249
,
256

second quantization
61

secondary quality
258

Serber, Robert
74

‘set-up assumption'
50
,
51
,
52

sfermion
166
,
169

Shannon, Claude
244—5

Shor, Peter
240
,
241

simultaneity
84—7

Slipher, Vesto
108
,
109

Smolin, Lee
231
,
280
,
293

smuon
166
,
175

Southern California, University

of
197

spacetime:

curved
15
,
93—101
,
109
n,
247
,
248
,
255
,
286

‘empty'
127

expansion of
103
,
107
,
110
,
112
,
119
,
120
,
123
,
222—3
,
256
,
278
,
282

experimental tests of general

relativity and
97—9

‘foam'
147

gravity and curvature of
94—7

Gravity Probe B and
99—100

inflation and
see
inflation

multidimensional
ix
,
93—4
,
183
,
186
,
188
,
190
,
192
,
194
,
197
,
201
,
222—3
,
226
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
254

quantum gravity and
146
,
147

symmetries
164
,
165
,
173
,
188

sparticles
168
,
169
,
170
,
172
,
174
,
176
,
178
,
180
,
203
,
208
,
286
,
299