David Peat

228 IndexPalio of Siena, 195 n.4Pari, Italy, 139Particles, 57–58, 59elementary, 64Pauli, Wolfgang, 11, 15, 16, 122Peano, Giuseppe, 27, 34Peat, F. David, 92, 167, 209Penrose, Roger, 44, 45, 62Penrose tiling, 44Permanence, 53–54Perturbation theory, 119, 129Phenomena, 5Philosophy, 78, 79, 80, 81language games, 89problems in, 83–84systems, 71Photoelectric effect, 7PhysicsBlackfoot, 69–70classical physics, 200–201new order for, 61–69postmodern, 60–61Picasso, Pablo, 109Pinker, Steven, 85–86Planck, Max, 7, 12, 110, 122Plato, 54, 82Plücker, Julius, 57Podolsky, Boris, 20Poincaré, Henri, 115–116, 121, 122Politics, 164–165Pollock, Jackson, 99, 111Position, 15, 16Postmodern physics, 60–61Potlach, 195 n.4Pribram, Karl, 68Principia Mathematica (Russell andWhitehead), 34–35, 40Principles of Mathematics (Russell), 75Principles of Natural Philosophy(Newton), 36Process, 64Progress, 199Proofs, 35–37, 43Pythagorean theorem, 36QQuanta, 12Quantum participation, 12–14Quantum reality, 15–16, 25Quantum theory, 1, 2Bohr’s writings on, 6, 7, 15, 122, 201and chance, 8–10, 11concepts of, 8contributors to modern, 122level of uncertainty, 12new field of, 7Quark, 57–58RRaft of the Medusa (Gericault), 104Randomness, 129, 132, 135Ravel, Maurice Joseph, 75Reading, 202–207, 208Realityand art, 105debate between Bohm and Einstein,24 n.7for Einstein, 10, 20–22illusion of, 102language as a picture of, 76, 88v. models, 22–23nature of, 3, 14postmodern, 16–22ultimate, 24–26See also Quantum reality; VeiledrealityReason, 190–196Reflectafors, 66Relativity, 1, 3–5Einstein’s theory of, 2, 3–5, 18, 19,58, 122, 201, 208Rembrandt, 102Renaissance, 100–101Representationart as a scientific theory, 105–107creativity and doubt, 97–98end of, 90–92