Everyday Quantum Reality

Index

171 Aristotle, 14 atomism, 21–25, 66, 131 atomistic light, 7, 133–135 Augustine, 3–4, 15, 133, 135 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 86 Beltrami, Edward, 155n6 Bernoulli, Jacob, 61, 155n6 Bohm, David, 84, 102, 114–115 Bohr, Niels, 19, 39, 42–43, 85, 108–109, 112, 114, 120–124, 129–130, 160n11:3; on language, xii, 109, 144; on life, 18, 121; ontological uncertainty, 14; on probability, 57 Bortoft, Henri, 129 Bridgman, P. W., 160n11 Brown, Judy Sorum, 121 Buber, Martin, 149 Cambrian Explosion, 113 causality, 56, 58, 61, 66, 70–71, 84, 130, 135, 137, 145, 155n4:4 childhood, 7, 89, 91, 125–126 Chopin, Frédéric, 83 Churchill, Winston, 11 collective unconscious, 42 color, 6, 95–100, 112–113 complementarity, 43, 85–86, 95, 98, 99, 102, 120, 132, 137 Index consciousness, 5, 26, 28–29, 31–33, 44–45, 78, 80–81, 104, 108, 114– 115, 154n4 Copenhagen interpretation, xii, 129–130 Dainton, Barry, 26 Darwin, Charles, 112, 115 De Broglie, Louis, 23–25, 66, 131 De Moivre, Abraham, 155n6 Descartes, René, 104, 109 determinism, 2, 17 Dirac, Paul, 77–78 double-slit experiment, 5, 7, 49, 51, 53–56, 58, 60, 62, 65, 87, 93, 100, 116–117; like geometry, 66–69; like peek-a-boo, 122–125; like seeing, 69–71; like sunset, 71–74. See also two-slit experiment dreams, 42, 44–45, 90 Dyson, Freeman, 79 Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 21, 69 Eigen, Manfred, 155n7 Einstein, Albert, 7, 22–23, 42, 54, 100–101, 122, 129, 132, 135–139, 161n11:13; on measurement, 108; posits light speed constancy, 22, 135; on probability, 57–58; on uncertainty , 37, 77–78 Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. 172 Index Eliot, T. S., 130 entanglement, 2, 4–6, 83–84, 105, 130, 132–134, 137, 140 Epicurus, 1 evolution, 6, 17, 29, 111–113, 115–116, 126 Faraday, Michael, 102–103 Feynman, Richard, 51 Fine, Arthur, 160n11:3 Frost, Robert, 114 Galilei, Galileo, 19, 67 Galison, Peter, 72 Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 155n6 geometry, 66–68 Gloucester, Earl of, 149 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 95– 100, 112, 148 Gould, Stephen Jay, 17 Greenstein, George, 2, 4, 132 Griepentrog, Gregory, 89 Hamlet, 115 Harding, Douglas E., 77 Harvie, Robert, 61 Heisenberg, Werner, 13–14, 18, 114, 144 Heraclitus, 70 Herbert, Nick, 19 Hindemith, Paul, 90 Hodgson, David, 79 Hosinski, Thomas, 31 Huizinga, Johan, 149 indeterminacy, 45–46, 145, 156n14. See also uncertainty James, William, 17, 28, 30–31, 33, 80–81, 139; infant experience, 126; the knowing of things together, 26, 154n4; superposed minds, 80 Jeans, James, 79, 115 Jencks, Charles, 37 Jung, Carl, 42–45 Kafatos, Menas, 130–132 Kant, Immanuel, 107 King Lear, 149 Koestler, Arthur, 59 Kosso, Peter, 101 Kundera, Milan, 150 Langer, Suzanne, 158n19 Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de, 12, 105 law of large numbers, 59, 61, 156n8 Lewis, C. S., 157n6 Lloyd, Seth, 125 locality principle, 58 Lockwood, Michael, 18 Loudon, Rodney, 160n11:9 magnets, magnetism, 100–105 Mahler, Gustav, 90 Malin, Shimon, 49 McFadden, Johnjoe, 116 measurement, 13–16, 18, 41–42, 46–47, 65, 78, 110, 130, 156n14, 160n11:3 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 7, 31, 45–46, 71, 139–140, 147, 161n18; handtouching -hand, 148; on science, 27–29; visually integrated into nature, 137 Mermin, David, 94 Mill, James, 32 mind, 5, 80 Mithen, Stephen, 158n21 music, 5–6, 83, 85–91, 119, 130, 145– 147, 153n1:6, 158nn16,19,21 Myers, L. H., 73 Nadeau, Robert, 130–132 Newton, Isaac, 19, 96 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 6, 147, 153n1:6 nonlocality, xi, 7, 129–134, 137–140 Nussbaum, Martha, 90 objectivity, 109–111, 147. See also spectator attitude observer-created reality, 6, 107–108 Oedipus, 110 order from disorder, 5, 61, 155n6 Parker, Andrew, 113 Parmenides, 95 Pascal, Blaise, 60, 120, 156n13 Pastoral Symphony, 86 173 Index Pauli, Wolfgang, 42, 44, 156n14 peek-a-boo, 121–122, 124–126 Planck, Max, 54, 156n14 Plato, 119, 133–136, 148, 161n12:14 play, 7, 143–148, 150 Podolsky, Boris, 129 Pope, Alexander, 121 Popper, Karl, 159n8:4 Powers, Jonathan, 160n11 pre-conceptual experience, 2, 28–30, 86 probability, 38–40, 59–61, 78–79, 116, 155n6, 156n8 Proust, Marcel, 158n16 randomness, 17, 60, 122, 144–146 relationality, 6, 66, 93, 95, 100, 102– 103, 105 Rosen, Nathan, 129 Sacks, Oliver, 89 Saffran, Jenny, 89 Saint Paul, 11 Salih, Tayeb, 116 Sappho, 72 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 90, 145, 147, 149 Schrödinger, Erwin, 5, 57...