by Peter Byrne
Trieste symposium and, 328
Rossotti, Charles, 294, 297
Rusk, Dean, 272
Russell, Bertrand, 231
Rutherford, Ernest, 87
Sachs, Lou, 214
saddle-points, 62–63
St. Anselm of Canterbury, 32
St. John’s College, 26, 29–30
Sakharov, Andrei, 199–200
Sandia Corporation, 277
Sandia National Laboratory, 188, 266
Sane Society, The (Fromm), 268–69
Santa Fe Institute, 370–72
Saunders, Simon, 260–61, 377–82
Savage, Leonard J., 61, 198, 379–81
Schelling, Thomas, 62
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 44
Schönborn, Christoph, 385
Schrodinger, Erwin, 55, 83, 350
Bohr and, 87
complementarity and, 110
EPR paradox and, 98
many worlds theory and, 144, 169
mentalist approach and, 101
on model limitations, 195
Mott experiment and, 99–100
Popper and, 362, 362–63
wave function collapse and, 99–101
Schrödinger equation, xii, 5, 373
Albert-Loewer interpretation and, 374
Belinfante and, 317–18
Bohr and, 87
causal relation and, 111
Chalmers and, 376
collapse theory and, 103
Copenhagen interpretation and, 110–12
decoherence theory and, 367–68
Feynman and, 181–82
many worlds theory and, 137, 145–46, 164
measurement problem and, 83
superposition principle and, 84
unitary property and, 96n5, 256n22, 333n29, 394
Schrödinger’s cat, 172
Schrödinger’s jellyfish, 99–101, 315
Schwinger, Julian, 127, 179, 328
science
anthropic principle and, 350, 386
atomic bombs and, 10
cosmic religious feeling and, 10–11
House Un-American
Activities Committee and, 21, 124–25, 266
militarization of, 124
National Science Foundation and, 39
Nobel Prize and, 65, 66n13, 94, 114, 117, 122, 124n20, 192, 302, 366, 371n42
priestly caste of, 10–11
scientists as businessmen and, 125–27
Vatican attacks and, 385
science fiction, 31, 303, 319–20, 359–62
Scientific American, 30, 196, 350, 355, 356, 372
Scientist Speculates, The: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas (Good), 301
Second Law of Thermodynamics, 39
security clearances
Everett and, 4, 35–36, 188, 212, 264, 266
Oppenheimer and, 57
Q level, 4, 268
WSEG requirements and, 192
Selin, Ivan, 294, 297
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), 75, 190
“Septet of Sibyls, A” (Wheeler), 161–62, 167
servomechanisms, 37, 66, 148–49, 164, 190, 348
Shannon, Claude, 37, 39, 144, 149, 173, 199
Shapley, Lloyd S., 56, 66, 75
Sheckley, Robert, 360–61
Shenstone, Allen, 167
Shimony, Abner, 254, 257, 259, 301–2
Shockley, William, 190, 192
Shoup, David, 245
Sideways in Time (Leinster), 360
Silent Language, The (Hall), 20
“Simplification of the Procedure of Determining the Basic Solutions of Matrix Games, A” (Everett), 38
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP), 195, 393
Army/Navy issues and, 242–43
Burke and, 243–45
China and, 238
city blasting and, 240–41
counterforce proponents and, 241
damage function and, 241–42
Eisenhower and, 238, 240
first strike capability and, 239–40
Joint Chiefs and, 238–39, 242
kill ratios and, 241–42
Lambda Corporation and, 268, 278, 283
McNamara and, 245
Marine Corps and, 245
Pentagon and, 238
revision of, 246
secrecy of, 239
Shoup and, 245
Soviet Union and, 238–46
Wargasm and, 239, 245
Site R, 344
socialism, 49
sociobiology, 298
solipsism, 41, 114, 147–48, 259, 341, 393
“So Long, Suckers” (game), 75–77
“Some Mathematical Relations for Probability of Kill” (Everett and Galiano), 283
Southern Railway Company, 13, 15
Soviet Union. See also Cold War
arms race and, 74, 129, 193–94, 197–99, 213–15, 227–37
economic growth rate of, 231–32
first strike and, 195–97, 227–46, 281–83, 292–93
Fock and, 216–18
missile gap and, 193–94, 213–15, 228, 235
nuclear warfare and, 199–200 (see also nuclear warfare)
Report 50 and, 215, 227–37
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP) and, 238–46
Sputnik and, 194
spin, 97–98, 151–52, 157, 172n10, 305, 393
Spinoza, 302
Spock, Benjamin, 209, 281
Sputnik, 194
Standard Oil, 74
Stanford University, 39, 173
Stanton, Frank, 193
Stapp, Henry, 157n40
Stein, Howard, 369
Stephenson, Neal, 361
Stern, Alexander, 164–67
Stevenson, Adlai, 209
“Stochastic Games” (Shapley), 66
stock market, 288–89
“Store” (Shockley), 360–61
Strasbourg conference, 329–31
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 292
fallout studies and, 205
operations research and, 193, 195, 205 (see also operations research)
Report 50 and, 228–29, 235
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP) and, 238–39, 242–45
Strategic Analysis Group, 212, 286
Strategy and Conscience (Rapaport), 64–66
Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein, 74
string theory, 386–88, 387
superconductivity, 302
superposition principle
anti-realist approach and, 83
automatic changes and, 103
Bohm and, 134–35
Bohr and, 84, 87–91
classic experimentation and, 95–96
collapse theory and, 102–8
counter-intuitive process of, 83–84
decoherence theory and, 363–71 (see also decoherence theory)
defined, 83
entanglement and, 97–99, 138
Everett/Wheeler issues and, 122, 130, 135, 138–41, 146–48, 152–54, 157, 172, 177, 180–81
Feynman on, 181–82
indeterminism and, 8, 60, 95–97, 103, 107, 111–12, 141, 158, 164–67, 307, 309, 332, 379, 382, 389
interference and, 92–93, 99, 138n8, 140n14, 148n10, 181, 324, 328, 363n15, 364–65, 377n17, 381, 391, 393
many worlds theory and, 135, 138–41, 146–54, 157, 172, 177, 180–81, 305, 308, 316, 328, 331, 360–62, 374–76, 381, 387, 389–94
measurement problem and, 83–84, 87–91, 87–101
parallelism and, 104
quantum world and, 92–105, 111–14, 253–58, 261
Schrödinger and, 83–84, 99–101, 315
Trieste symposium and, 328–29
two-slit experiment and, 92–93
unitary property and, 96n5, 256n22, 333n29, 394
superspace, 328–29
Susskind, Leonard, 386–87
“Symposium on the Physicist’s Conception of Nature in the Twentieth Century”
, 328–29
Systems Development Corporation, 190
Szilard, Leo, 123
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 304
tautology, 32–33, 64, 393–94
Teapot Committee, 75
Tegmark, Max, 158
Teller, Edward, 73, 127
“Ten Common Pitfalls” (Kahn), 197
Terminal Press, 11
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (von Neumann and Morgenstern), 61
Things the Grandchildren Should Know (Everett), 355–56
think tanks, 38, 56, 126, 191, 268, 295, 297
Third Conference on Games, 72
Thompson, J.J., 87
Thorne, Kip, 328
time, 266–67, 317–18
Titan missiles, 235
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, 179
Trieste, Italy, 328–29
Trotter, Hale, 57–58, 82f, 356
TRS-80 computer, 341
Truman, Harry S., 123–24
Tsiang, Elaine, 340–41
Tucker, Albert, 38, 56, 69, 76
Turing, Alan, 37
Turkey, 229
Turtledove, Harry, 361
Twining, Nathan F., 242
UFOs, 21
uncertainty, 59
Bayesian inference and, 287–91
Heisenberg uncertainty principle and, 96–97
indeterminism and, 8, 60, 95–97, 103, 107, 111–12, 141, 158, 164–67, 307, 309, 332, 379, 382, 389
Under the Radar, Cancer and the Cold War (Leopold), 263n4
Undivided Universe, The (Bohm and Hiley), 374
unification problem, 178–79
unitary, 96n5, 256n22, 333n29, 394
United States
arms race and, 74, 129, 193–94, 197–99, 213–15, 227–37
Bay of Pigs invasion and, 268
Civil War and, 11
consumerism and, 268–70
consumption culture and, 209
economic growth rate of, 231–32
economy of, 280
first strike and, 195–97, 227–46, 281–83, 292–93 (see also operations research)
gender roles in, 209, 211–12
missile gap and, 193–94, 213–15, 228, 235
nuclear war games and, 4
Pearl Harbor and, 122–23
persecution of Bohm and, 124
recession of, 344–45
Report 50 and, 215, 227–37
Roaring Twenties and, 119
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP) and, 238–46
World War II and, 10
University of California, Santa Barbara, 324
University of Copenhagen, 87
University of Leiden, 162
University of North Carolina, 121, 179–83
University of Texas, 321–23, 331–32, 339, 366, 376
uranium 235, 121
U.S. Air Marshals, 3
U.S. Department of Defense, 191, 212
van Vechten, Deborah, 302
van Vleck, John, 109
Veteran’s Administration, 15
Vienna Circle, 174
Vietnam War, 62, 233, 270, 272, 295, 297–98
Voldus and Aria, 46–47
von Neumann, John, 37, 105, 199
axioms of, 102–4
Bohr and, 89
challenges to views of, 110
collapse theory and, 73, 81, 102–4, 145 (see also collapse theory)
computers and, 73
death of, 73–74
DeWitt and, 311
Everett@Fifty conference and, 383
Freudian side of, 74
game theory and, 56, 58, 61–62, 64, 66, 72–75
German writings of, 82
Hilbert space and, 73
information theory and, 173
Manhattan Project and, 81
many worlds theory and, 144, 149
nuclear war and, 74–75
parallelism and, 145
projection postulate of, 112
quantum physics and, 73
religion and, 73
role of consciousness and, 146
Rosenfeld and, 249–51
Strasbourg conference and, 330
Trieste symposium and, 328
zero-sum game and, 61
Wallace, David, 378–82
Wall Street, 193
Wang, Jessica, 124–25, 130
Wargasm, 74, 196
defined, 394
McNamara and, 235
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP) and, 235–40, 245
Washington Post, The, 11, 295, 346–47
wave function
collapse theory and, 73, 81, 99–109 (see also collapse theory)
Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and, 251–61, 301
decoherence theory and, 363–71 (see also decoherence theory)
defined, 389
Everett dissertation and, 136–43
hidden variables interpretation and, 111–14, 148, 257–58, 287, 314, 373, 374n4, 389, 391
interference and, 92–93, 99, 138n8, 140n14, 148n10, 181, 324, 328, 363n15, 364–65, 377n17, 381, 391, 393
many worlds theory and, 144–60 (see also many worlds theory)
mentalist approach to, 101, 373–74
pilot waves and, 314–15
reduction and, 102
Schrödinger and, 99–100
Strasbourg conference and, 329–30
superposition principle and, 83–84 (see also superposition principle)
universal, 5, 305–7, 388
Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), 32, 128, 168–69, 223, 263n4, 264, 270
The Cage and, 192, 227
employee social life and, 211–12
first computer of, 212–13
Ford Foundation and, 192
Frawley and, 285–86
Galiano and, 222
game theory and, 72, 75–77
halting problem and, 201
internal power struggle of, 268
Lambda Corporation and, 277
Misner and, 192
missile gap and, 193–94
non-governmental status of, 191–92
nuclear warfare and, 192–93, 285–88
offensive capabilities study and, 227
operations research and, 187–89, 191–94, 198, 201–3 (see also operations research)
origin of, 191–93
private defense contracts and, 215
Pugh and, 202–5, 298
Report 50 and, 214, 222, 227–37
Shockley and, 192
Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP) and, 238–46
six inter-locking groups of, 192
slashed budget of, 268
staff of, 191
Strategic Analysis Group, 212, 286
university affiliation and, 191
Wells, H.G., 360
Werner, F.G., 251
Wesley, George, 312
Wheeler, Janette (Hegner), 121
Wheeler, John Archibald, xii, 3, 7, 73, 82–83, 326
accomplishments of, 117, 122
Analog article and, 319–20
Atlas missile and, 128
atomic weapons and, 123–24, 327
autobiography of, 119
Big Crunch and, 329
Bohr and, 8, 89, 119, 121, 143, 160–77
as businessman, 125–27
Chapel Hill conference and, 179–83
childhood of, 119
as coach, 214–15
Cold War and, 124–30
death of, 117
decoherence theory and, 368
DeWitt and, 304, 306–7, 311
Du Pont and, 126
Einstein and, 131
evaluation of Everett for NSF and, 90–91
Everett dissertation and, 136–43
family background of, 117
Feynman and, 117, 122
flip-flops of, 128–30
Goldberger’s assessment of, 128–29
Heisenberg and, 121
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hydrogen bomb and, 127–30