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by Phillip F. Schewe

Cuban Missile Crisis

  The Curve of Binding Energy (McPhee)

  Daedalus; or Science and the Future (Haldane)

  Dante

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin Among the Machines (Dyson, G.)

  post-Darwin evolutionary phase

  Darwin interlude

  Dashen, Roger

  Davenport, Harold

  David-vs.-Goliath philosophy

  Davy Crockett warhead

  Dawkins, Richard

  The Day After Trinity, as nuclear age television documentary

  de Hoffmann, Frederic

  as General Atomic head

  Orion project under

  death

  Galois and

  reflections on

  thoughts of

  Debunked (Broch)

  Deep Space Bombardment Force, as Orion doomsday weapon

  defense-by-bluff style

  democrat

  Dennett, Daniel

  deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

  Department of Energy

  Dickens, Basil

  Dickinson, Emily

  Dirac, Paul

  A Distant Mirror (Tuchman)

  Disturbing the Universe (Dyson, F.)

  dream about God in

  on quoting poets

  divorce

  reason for

  settlement of

  DNA. See deoxyribonucleic acid

  Doctor Atomic (Adams)

  doctorates (honorary)

  Doomsday Machine

  deterrence of

  Kubrick and

  doomsday weapon

  Dr. Strangelove

  Doomsday Machine and

  On Thermonuclear War and

  Drake, Frank

  extraterrestrial life probability formula of

  SETI and

  universe’s radio method of exploration and

  dreams

  Dreams of Earth and Sky (Konstantin)

  Dunne, Brian

  Durell, Clement

  Dyson, Alice (sister)

  Dyson, Dorothy (daughter)

  Dyson, Emily (daughter)

  Dyson, Esther (daughter)

  as author

  birth of

  as cosmonaut

  father’s retirement talk by

  on Internet’s rise

  Dyson, Freeman. See specific topics

  Dyson, George (father)

  controlling judgment and

  knighted

  postwar memoir of

  in World War I

  Dyson, George (son)

  as author

  reunion with

  Dyson, Imme (second wife). See Jung, Imme

  Dyson, Mildred (mother)

  Dyson, Miriam (daughter)

  Dyson, Rebecca (daughter)

  the “Dyson,” as measure of speculation

  “The Dyson Conjecture”

  Dyson nostrums

  Dyson papers

  Dyson sphere

  as galactic civilizations’ criterion

  as hypothetical energy collector

  as inspiration for novels

  Star Trek and

  Dyson swarm, as life forms in dust clouds

  Dyson trees

  Dyson-Schmidt equation

  Dyson-Schwinger equations

  economy of scale

  Eddington, Arthur

  education

  Cambridge University at Trinity College

  of children

  Twyford (boarding school)

  Winchester College (boarding school)

  Einstein, Albert

  indeterminacy rejected by

  non-interaction with

  on particle motion

  “The Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels”

  Electronic Computer Project

  electrons

  accelerator and

  Aquinas’ terminology for describing of

  electromagnetic energy

  infinity squared in

  international theory of

  magnetism and

  renormalization of

  universal electron field and

  virtual light in

  Eliot, T. S.

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  An Enemy of the People (Ibsen)

  engineer

  epiphany

  ESP. See extrasensory perception

  “Eternity” (Blake)

  ethics

  Europa

  Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind (Mayer)

  extrasensory perception (ESP)

  extraterrestrial life. See also search for extraterrestrial intelligence

  on asteroids and comets

  thought experiments and

  fallout

  increased cancers and

  levels of

  family

  books read in

  culture of

  DNA and

  good father with

  lineage of

  as priority

  Faraday, Michael

  Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

  Feiveson, Harold

  fellowship

  Ferguson, Charles

  Fermi, Enrico

  Dyson’s new conjecture invalidated by

  reactor prototype and

  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

  “Fern Hill” (Thomas)

  Feynman, Richard

  on atom bomb’s detonation

  on compatibility with Schwinger

  as confidante of

  defeat admitted by

  failed theory of

  friendship with

  idolatry of

  at Los Alamos bomb project

  Nobel Prize for

  personality of

  picture approach of

  at Pocono conference

  Feynman-Dyson diagrams. See also Dyson-Schwinger equations

  The First Three Minutes (Weinberg)

  first-use policy

  fission

  flexibility

  food

  genetically modified food

  milk safety and

  food-first-imperative

  Frayn, Michael

  free will

  God and

  illusory nature of

  freeze movement

  friendships

  From Eros to Gaia (Dyson, F.)

  Fuchs, Klaus

  fundamental physical constants

  future

  Arthur Lectures on

  Clarke on prediction of

  Dyson-Schwinger equations and

  time and

  galactic civilization

  Galapagos Islands

  Galois, Evariste

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  garden of Eden

  Garwin, Richard

  Geller, Uri

  Gell-Mann, Murray

  General Atomic

  de Hoffmann as head of

  General Dynamics’ subsidiary of

  nuclear reactors and

  Orion and

  as vice president of

  General Dynamics

  genetically modified food

  genome. See also biosphere genome; The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet

  Gibbons, Jack

  Gifford Lectures

  Infinite in All Directions and

  on religion and science

  Sagan and

  Glashow, Sheldon

  Gleick, James

  global warming

  bad outweighing good in

  benefits of

  countervailing effects against

  food-first imperative and

  on greenhouse gases’ emissions

  manifesto to Oak Ridge report and

  soil uptake of CO2 and

  uniformity lacking in

  unorthodox position about

  GM food. See genetically modified food

  God

  as collective consciousness’ ex
pansion

  dream of

  free will and

  as individual’s religious experiences

  Sagan on religion and

  Star Maker and

  as world soul

  world soul and

  The God Delusion (Dawkins)

  Godel, Kurt

  Gold, Thomas

  Goldberger, Marvin

  Golden Rule, Brennan’s military version of

  Gomer, Robert

  Gore, Al

  gravitational machine

  gravitational masses

  gravity

  Grechko, Marshal Andrei

  greenhouse warming. See global warming

  Greenland meeting

  Haefeli, Hans, as first husband of Huber, V.

  Hahn, Oscar

  Hakluyt, Richard

  Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson

  “hang-ups,” as gravity’s counteracting forces

  Happer, William

  Hardy, G. H.

  Harris, General

  H-bomb

  blast simulation of

  co-creators of

  developer of

  as fusion

  Oppenheimer, Cold War and

  opposition to

  physicists’ disagreement about

  Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)

  Heisenberg, Werner

  Heitler, Walter

  Herschel, William, Wright’s Milky Way confirmed by

  hibernation, as energy conservation’s means

  High Temperature Graphite Reactor (HTGR)

  High Wycombe

  Hiroshima visit

  Holmes, Richard

  Homer

  homestead

  Homo sapiens

  House Committee on Un-American Activities

  HTGR. See High Temperature Graphite Reactor

  Huber, Katarina (stepdaughter)

  father of

  in mother’s custody

  stepfather and

  Huber, Verena (first wife)

  background of

  as Cornell’s mathematics instructor

  courtship of

  depression of

  discontent of

  on Dyson-Kreisel mathematics rivalry

  employment of

  first impressions of

  on husband as alien robot

  Jung’s au pair interview by

  Kreisel’s affair with

  on marriage

  marriage to

  Michigan trip with

  name change of

  rejection of

  stillborn child of

  Huber-Dyson, Verena. See Huber, Verena (first wife)

  human destiny

  as exploration of solar system

  unboundedness of

  human nature

  continuity of

  emotions as central complexity of

  hunger

  Huxley, Thomas

  hydrogen bomb. See H-bomb

  IAS. See Institute for Advanced Studies

  Ibsen, Henrik

  Iliad (Homer)

  Imagined Worlds (Dyson, F.)

  impartiality

  Imperial College

  incompleteness theory

  Inconvenient Truth (Gore)

  indeterminacy

  Infinite in All Directions (Dyson, F.)

  Gifford Lectures and

  human destiny’s unboundedness in

  infinity

  squared

  substance of

  tamed

  The Information (Gleick)

  infrared (IR)

  Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)

  absence from

  best friends at

  blast simulation at

  carte blanche at

  Coalition for Peace Action commemoration at

  decision for study at

  Electronic Computer Project at

  as intellectual hotel

  limited interaction with Godel at

  loss of Electronic Computer Project

  marriage to

  non-interaction with Einstein at

  Oppenheimer as director of

  Oppenheimer’s tribunal outcome and

  permanent faculty position at

  postdoctoral students at

  as professor emeritus

  retirement event at

  School of Natural Sciences at

  second mortgage from

  Internet

  IR. See infrared

  The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells)

  Jacobs, Hilde

  James, William

  Jason program

  assessment of Nike missile defense for

  membership in

  non-leadership role in

  “Pentagon Papers” and

  physic’s laws and

  Joy, Bill

  Joyce, James

  Dyson, Freeman, compared to

  reading of

  Jung, Imme (second wife)

  au pair interview of

  as marathon runner

  marriage to

  Jupiter

  Europa as moon of

  life in deepwater ocean of

  Kahn, Herman

  a “Kahn,” as unit of fission energy

  Kahneman, Daniel

  Karplus, Robert

  Kemmer, Nicholas, as physics’ mentor

  Kennedy, John F.

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  killing machine

  King, Martin Luther

  Kittel, Charles

  knowledge

  Konstantin, Tsiolkovsky

  Kramer, Stanley

  Krauss, Lawrence

  on free will’s illusory nature

  on memory’s digital character

  on thinning of universe

  Kreisel, Georg

  Dyson’s divorce and

  Dyson’s mathematics rivalry with

  Huber, V., affair with

  Kreisliana: About and Around Georg Kreisel (Huber-Dyson)

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kuiper object

  Lab, Cavendish

  Lake Views (Weinberg)

  Lamb, Willis

  Lamb shift revisited

  on Lamb shift solution

  Lamb shift. See Lamb, Willis

  laser guide star

  Last and First Men (Stapledon)

  Lee, Silver

  Lee, Tsung-Dao, on non-symmetry

  Lenard, Andrew, on matter’s stability

  Lewis, Hal

  Lieb, Elliott

  life. See also extraterrestrial life; minimal life

  criticism of model of

  as Dyson swarm

  garden of Eden and

  Jupiter’s deepwater ocean and

  model of

  Origins of Life and 227

  purpose of

  religion and

  RNA and

  Schrodinger and

  life’s purpose

  Light Water Reactor (LWR)

  Lighthill, James

  limited war doctrine

  live-and-let-live concept

  Long Now Foundation

  Los Alamos

  Bethe as bomb design head at

  Feynman at

  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot)

  LWR. See Light Water Reactor

  The Magic City (Nesbit)

  Manhattan Project

  Manifest Destiny

  A Many Colored Glass (Dyson, F.)

  Margalit, Avishai

  marriage. See also Huber, Verena (first wife); Jung, Imme (second wife)

  desire for

  Dyson’s affair in

  friction in

  to Huber

  Huber, V., depression in

  Huber’s resistance to

  to Jung

  robotic behavior in

  Mars

  mathematical physics

  mathematics

  matter

  mind’s invasion of

  pur
poseful movement of

  on religion’s transcendence of

  stability of

  Max, Claire, laser guide star and

  Max Planck Institute

  Maxwell, James Clerk

  Mayer, Elizabeth Lloyd

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McNamara, Robert

  McPhee, John

  Mehta, Madan Lal

  memory

  meta-analysis, early version of

  meta-science

  milk, strontium-90 and

  mind

  matter’s invasion by

  universe and

  minimal life

  cell requirements for

  computer analogy in

  evolution of cellular processes in

  garden of Eden graph and

  Origins of Life and

  Minkowski conjecture

  mirror symmetry

  model of life

  modern science, matter as inanimate force of

  molecular bomb

  Monod, Jacques

  on complete impartiality

  on human species as accident

  MONICA

  applied mathematics and

  as radar systems’ analysis

  Monroe Doctrine

  Morette, Cecile

  Morrison, Philip

  Hiroshima bomb and

  radio method of exploration and

  SETI and

  Morrison-Cocconi papers

  Muller, Richard

  active optics and

  on bombs

  Munster, Germany

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Musk, Eon

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  National Bureau of Standards

  national security state

  natural theology

  nature

  constants of

  Wright on creator of

  Nesbit, Edith

  neutron bomb, Orion’s requirement of

  The New York Times Magazine, featured in

  New York University

  Newton, Isaac, religion’s guidance of science and

  night climbing

  Nike missile defense system

  Nobel Prize

  arguments for Dyson, F. and

  for Tomonaga, Schwinger, Feynman

  no-first-use principle

  nonnuclear defense

  non-symmetry

  nuclear abolitionism

  nuclear electricity

  nuclear fallout. See fallout

  nuclear force

  Fermi invalidates work on

  new conjecture about

  nuclear freeze

  nuclear power safety

  bandwagon effect and

  economy of scale and

  flexibility and

  marketplace and

  reactors and

  nuclear reactors

  Fermi’s prototype of

  fission in

  nuclear electricity and

  safety and

  Taylor, T., design of

  Teller’s design of

  uses of

  nuclear rocketship

  bombs and boost phase of

  chemical rocket’s comparison to

  designer’s dream of flying in

  nuclear debris problem of

  propulsion of

  nuclear test ban

  Congressional testimony for

  mind change in favor of

  opposed to

  Project Plowshare and

  Senate approval of

  nuclear testing

  nuclear weapons. See also A-bomb; H-bomb; tactical nuclear weapons

  Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and

 

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