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superposition, 456–60
surface tension, 57
“SwabianTale” (Uhland), 53n
Swing, Raymond Gram, 489, 497–98
Swiss Patent Office, 1, 3, 36, 62–63, 72, 74, 76, 77–79, 84, 85–86, 89, 90, 92–93, 113, 122, 126, 128, 137–38, 140, 141, 142–43, 149, 150, 151,
154–55, 159, 250, 255, 266, 424, 444, 517, 551
synthetic propositions, 82–83
Szilárd, Leo, 407, 471–76, 471, 480, 484, 485, 490, 491, 492–93, 629n–30n
Talmud, 386
Talmud (Talmey), Max, 18, 19–20, 23, 82, 294–95
Tanner, Hans, 159, 160–62
Taurus, 257
Teller, Edward, 407, 473, 476, 480, 500, 531, 534, 629n
temperature, 105–6, 165
Theorie Physique, La (Duhem), 158
thörmodynamics, 69–70, 98, 105–6, 141–42, 576n
Thomas, Norman, 375, 504
ThomsonJ. J., 261, 279, 321
Thorne, Kip, 133, 222, 251
thought experiments (Gedankenexperiment)’, 2, 3–4, 5, 26–27, 78, 79, 114, 121, 122–27, 138, 142, 145–46, 147, 190, 201, 267, 322, 345–46,
348–49, 448–60, 468, 512, 514, 583n
Tiger (Einstein’s cat), 438
time:
absolute, 2, 37, 82, 84, 124–25, 128, 169, 223, 266, 277, 288, 333, 460
duration of, 130–32
as fourth dimension, 132
local, 134
in relativity theory, 93, 113, 122, 123–27, 128, 130–35, 140, 148, 169, 223, 250, 251, 266, 277, 318, 333, 349, 510–11, 581n–82n
travel in, 511
Time, 342, 369, 430, 485, 624n, 633n
Time Machine, The (Wells), 132
Times (London), 263–64, 267, 273, 281, 421
Tinef (Einstein’s sailboat), 435, 472, 479
Today with Mrs. Roosevelt, 501
Treatise of Human Nature, A (Hume), 81, 82
Trotsky, Leon, 446–47
Truman, Harry S., 484, 491, 492, 493, 500, 504, 507, 525–26
Tummler (Einstein’s sailboat), 360
twin paradox, 130
Uhland, Ludwig, 53n ultraviolet light, 65, 111
Ulysses ( Joyce), 280
uncertainty principle, 124, 331–33, 349, 449, 452–53, 510
unified field theory, 336–44
affine connection in, 339, 344
bivector fields in, 512
complexity of, 339–44
distant parallelism in, 341, 343–44
Einstein’s formulation of, 4, 13–14, 67, 316, 320, 336–44, 350–53, 358, 368, 371, 410, 423, 466–69, 508–9, 511–14, 537–39, 542, 543
electromagnetism in, 338–41, 466, 512–13
experimental verification of, 351, 352
gravitation in, 338–41, 385, 466, 511, 512–13, 538
Kaluza-Klein formulation for, 337–39
mathematical approach of, 67, 337–44, 351–52, 358, 363, 368, 423, 466–67, 511–14, 538–39, 542, 543, 591n
metric tensors in, 340–41, 512–13
non-symmetric tensors in, 512–13
papers published on, 338, 339–44, 357, 363, 513
physical reality of, 337–38, 340, 342, 343–44, 511–12, 513, 537–39
press coverage of, 339–44, 467, 468, 513
quantum mechanics vs., 4, 315–16, 320–21, 336–38, 340, 341, 349, 453, 468–69, 538
relativity and, 336–38
scientific validity of, 316, 343–44, 511–14, 537–39, 628n–29n
spacetime in, 337–38, 341, 512
for subatomic particles, 463–64, 512, 538
unified concept of, 3, 4, 13–14, 67, 70–71, 148, 342, 550
Union Theological Seminary, 390–91