David Peat

224 IndexBody in Question, The (Miller), 87Bohm, David, 3debate with Albert Einstein, 24 n.7during McCarthy era, 167–168“ink drop experiment,” 63–64, 64n.2new order to physics, 61, 62, 65, 67–68on language, 87–88theories of the plasmas, 139–140Böhme, Jakob, 91Bohr, Niels, 61act of observation, 17and Albert Einstein, 2–3, 4, 5, 10, 17,18, 24complementarity principle, 8, 20, 22,65–66interpretation of uncertaintyprinciple, 14–16, 19–22on language, 23–24, 62, 84–85, 87,89nature of reality, 24, 81on quantum theory, 6, 7, 15, 122,201Boltzmann, Ludwig, 75Borges, Jorge Luis, 88 n.5Born, Max, 7Boyle, Robert, 56Brahms, Johannes, 75Brain. See Human brainBraque, Georges, 109Briggs, John, 66Brontë, Charlotte, 205Brontë, Emily, 206–207Brouwear, L. E. J., 39, 40, 80Buchan, John, 118Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 155Burgess, Anthony, 205Bush, AnJannette, 113CCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 96,101–102Carroll, Lewis, 88Carson, Rachel, 157–158Cassowary Cult, 195 n.4Cathode rays, 57Certainty, 5, 97–98, 163dislocation between uncertaintyand, 3limited by nature, 27in mathematics, 27, 28, 29–30Cézanne, Paul, 66, 108–109Chance, 8–10, 11, 17, 129, 132–134Change, 53–54, 199–201Chaos, 115–116, 131, 132and classical physics, 200periods of, 136populations, 126–131systems, 124–126theory, 122–125, 130, 144trends, 134–135womb of, 116–124Character, 202–207Chevreul, Michel-Eugène, 110Choices, 154–157Civilization, 191, 193Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud),191Clifford, William Kingdon, 68Cognitive strategies, 45Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 106Complementarity, 8, 20, 22, 30, 65–66Computers, 45–47Conforti, Michael, 66Copernicus, Nicolaus, 3, 90–91, 201Cordell, Arthur, 166Counting, 31–32Creativity, 97–98Critical Exposition of the Philosophy ofLeibniz, A (Russell), 74Cubism, 109–110Cultural imperialism, 210Cultural relativism, 208–210Curie, Marie, 8DDa Vinci, Leonardo, 95Dalton, John, 56David Copperfield (Dickens), 206