Read Einstein Online

Authors: Walter Isaacson

Einstein (151 page)

physical strategy for,
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popular explanations of,
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–24,
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postulates of,
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public reaction to,
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quantum mechanics compared with,
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relativity principle in,
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rest as concept in,
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rotation in,
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scientific acceptance of,
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scientific opposition to,
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simultaneous events in (synchronicity),
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–27,
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–35,
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n
–82
n

singularities in,
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space as concept in (spacetime),
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–11,
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special theory of,
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speed of light in,
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–30,
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starlight verification of (eclipses),
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thought experiments
(Gedankenexperiment)
for,
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–27,
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–46,
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time as concept in,
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–27,
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n

train analogies for,
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–26,
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–30

twin paradox in,
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unified field theory and,
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–38

“uniqueness” argument in,
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velocity in,
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wave theory and,
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–12,
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n

Zurich
Notebook for,
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–98,
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
(Einstein),
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religion,
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–64,
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–68,
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–83,
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–93,
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550
–51,
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n

Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust),
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Renard
(Stravinsky),
280

Renn, Jiirgen,
68
,
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,
214
,
573n,
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n,
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n

Rentenmark currency,
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Rescuing Albert’s Compass
(Oppenheim),
13

rest,
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–28,
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Reston, James,
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Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio,
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Riecke, Eduard,
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Riemann, Bernhard,
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river flows,
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Riverside Church,
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Rockefeller, John D., Jr.,
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Rockefeller Foundation,
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Rolland, Romain,
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,
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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–31,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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–31,
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–78,
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–30
n

Rosen, Nathan,
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n
–26
n

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel,
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–26,
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Rosenfeld, Leon,
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Rosso, Henry,
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–41

rotation,
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–201,
212
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–52,
318
–20,
510
–11,
593n–94n,
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Rowe, David E.,
633
n

Royal Albert Hall,
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–24

Royal Astronomical Society,
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Royal Society,
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Russell, Bertrand,
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Rutherford, Ernest,
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Rynasiewicz, Robert,
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Sachs, Alexander,
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–76,
477
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Samuel, Herbert,
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–8

Sauer, Tilman,
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Savic, Helene Kaufler,
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–77,
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–75,
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Savic, Zorka,
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scarlet fever,
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Schneider, Use,
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Schöpenhauer, Arthur,
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Schrödinger, Erwin,
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Schrödinger equation,
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“Schrödinger’s cat,”
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–60

Schubert, Franz,
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Schulmann, Robert,
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Schumann, Robert,
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Schuster, Max,
465

Schwartz, Paul,
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Schwarzschild, Karl,
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–52,
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Schwarzschild radius,
250

Science and Hypothesis
(Poincare),
81
,
125

Scottsboro Boys,
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,
381

Second Law of Thermodynamics,
69
–70

Seeley, Evelyn,
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Seelig, Carl,
35
,
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segregation, racial,
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,
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Seidel, Toscha,
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separability principle,
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–30,
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–50,
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Shadowitz, Albert,
530

Shakespeare, William,
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Shaky Game, The
(Fine),
627
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Shankland, Robert,
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–17

Shaw, George Bernard,
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Siemens, Werner von,
32

Silberstein, Ludwig,
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Simon, Richard,
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simultaneous events in (synchronicity),
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–84,
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–27,
129
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131
,
134
–35,
333
,
346
,
511
,
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n
–82
n

Sinclair, Upton,
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–74,
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singularities,
250
–52

Sitter, Willem de,
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n

skepticism,
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–72,
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–79,
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169
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,
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–34,
350
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–61

Smith, Howard K.,
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Smolin, Lee,
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–50

Smyth, Henry DeWolf,
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Snow, C. P.,
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–22,
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–69,
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–26

Snyder, Hartland,
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Social Democratic Party,
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–39,
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–42

socialism,
4
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–39,
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–42,
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–81,
399
–401,
420
,
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–5,
633
n

Society for Ethical Culture,
38

solar eclipse (1914),
202
–5

solar eclipse (1919),
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,
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–62

solar mass,
250

Solovine, Maurice,
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–81,
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,
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