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skepticism, 67–72, 78–79, 100, 113, 125, 164, 169, 284, 333–34, 350, 460–61
Smith, Howard K., 519
Smolin, Lee, 549–50
Smyth, Henry DeWolf, 485
Snow, C. P., 21–22, 268–69, 325–26
Snyder, Hartland, 251
Social Democratic Party, 38–39, 150, 151, 159, 239–42
socialism, 4, 38–39, 205, 239–42, 373, 375, 378–81, 399–401, 420, 499, 504–5, 633n
Society for Ethical Culture, 38
solar eclipse (1914), 202–5
solar eclipse (1919), 5, 218, 255–62
solar mass, 250
Solovine, Maurice, 79–81, 85, 131, 141, 291, 304, 317, 401, 411, 462, 463, 467, 513–14, 536, 581n, 601n
Solvay, Ernest, 168
Solvay Conference (1911), 168–71, 178, 321
Solvay Conference (1921), 289–90, 291
Solvay Conference (1927), 336, 344–48, 450, 452, 453, 514, 538, 609n
Solvay Conference (1930), 348–49, 450, 452, 453, 514, 538
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 142, 193, 234, 287, 593n, 594n
Sommerfeld-Einstein quantum law, 234
Sophocles, 81
sound waves, 92, 109–10, 119, 224, 299
Soviet Union, 379–80, 420–21, 446–47, 478, 489–90, 494–503, 504, 524–25, 526, 633n
space, spacetime:
absolute, 2, 37, 84, 111, 125, 128, 169, 200, 223, 266, 277, 333, 460
curved, 3–4, 5, 83, 192, 193–96, 220, 250–62, 266, 341, 464, 548
as emptiness (void), 97, 99, 111n, 114, 157, 319–20
five-dimensional, 337–38
four-dimensional, 4, 132, 324, 338, 369
in quantum mechanics, 348–49, 450, 453, 455, 461–62
relativity and, 93, 125, 128, 131–35, 140, 169, 192, 193–96, 200, 218, 220, 223, 250–62, 265–66, 277, 278, 296, 318, 319, 333, 510–11,
548
three-dimensional, 252–53, 296, 339
two-dimensional, 4, 252–54, 296
in unified field theory, 337–38, 341, 512
Spanish Civil War, 478, 490
spectrum, light, 93, 322, 331
Spinoza, Baruch, 81, 84, 334–35, 387, 388–89, 391
Spinoza Society, 391
spiral nebulae, 254, 355
spiritualism, 374
spontaneous motion, 69–70
“spooky action at a distance,” 448–53, 454, 458
Stachel, John, 75n, 136, 196
Stalin, Joseph, 380, 399, 446–47, 526
Star Trek, 251
State Department, U.S., 399–401, 472–73, 500
statistical mechanics, 2, 67–70, 98, 99, 101, 103–6, 167, 255, 327–29, 333, 341, 345, 347–48, 629n
Stern, Max, 150
Stern, Otto, 407, 482–83, 484
Stevenson, Adlai, 532–33
Stimson, Henry, 401
Stone, Douglas, 328, 609n Stossel, Ludwig, 493
Strassman, Fritz, 469
Straus, Ernst, 466–67, 508
Strauss, Lewis, 531, 532, 534
Strauss, Richard, 38
Stravinsky, Igor, 3, 280
Stringfellow, George, 528–29
string theory, 339
Struck, Hermann, 362–63
Study Group of German Scientists for the Preservation of a Pure Science, 284–85
Sudoplatov, Pavel, 503
sugar solutions, 102
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 487, 631n
sum-over-histories approach, 515
Sunday Express, 422
Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS), 613