A

Acoustically driven optical switches, 212

Action at a distance, 47-48, 113-115, 117-118, 123, 222

Adams, Scott, 160-161

Adams, Douglas, 179

Afshar, Shahviar, 230

Air molecules, localization time, 85

Aliens, 9, 11, 44

game-playing, 94-102

SETI project, 158

Andromeda galaxy, 50

Angstrom, 19

Anthropic principle, 183

Artificial intelligence, 208

Aspect, Alain, 33, 62.

See also Bell-Aspect experiment

Atoms, 15, 22-23, 55, 58, 80, 126-127

Australia, 8, 41-42, 112

B

Babies, expectations of physical laws, 107-110, 112, 114, 118

Backward-in-time

causation, 71, 72-73

signaling, 8-9, 10, 31-32, 36, 40, 42, 44, 47-48, 51, 52, 206

travel, 45

Bambuti pygmies, 121

Barbour, Julian, 178-181, 257

Baroque quantity of calculations, 53

Bekenstein, Jacob, 246

Bekenstein limit, 87, 176, 246, 249

Bell, John, 32, 36, 69

Bell-Aspect experiment, 34-39, 41, 49, 51, 62, 89, 206, 212, 221, 225, 226, 236-237

Bell’s inequality, 36-37, 225-226

Big Bang, 139, 254

Binary

calculation, 159-160

digits, see Bits

message, 221

Birkbeck College, 69, 73, 201

Bits, 52, 88, 89, 156, 216, 243

Black holes, 200, 201, 216, 246

Bletchley Park, 162-163

Bloch sphere, 88-89, 166

Bohm, David, 32, 69-71, 73, 88-89, 133, 143, 199, 201

Bohmian mechanics, 70-71, 236

Bohr, Niels, 63-67

Book-writing program, 238-239

Bomb detectors, 142-153, 174, 204

Borel, Emile, 50, 83

Born, Max, 61

Born rule, 61-63, 178, 249

Bose-Einstein condensate, 70

Branching of probabilities, 170-173, 176-178, 179

Brown, Harvey, 169, 184

Brownian motion, 26, 189, 191

Buchan, John, 148

Buckyballs, 86-87, 211-212, 213

Butterfield, Jeremy, 169

Butterfly effect, 50, 158, 159, 235

C

California Institute of Technology, 206

Carroll, Lewis. See Dodgson, Charles

Cat’s Cradle, 30-31

Cat-box experiments, 59, 68-69

Causality, 51, 65, 71, 72-73, 153, 226

Cellular

automaton, 118-119, 243

models, 243-244

Centre for Quantum Computation, 169, 176

CERN, 32

Chaos effects, 50, 55-56, 175, 186-187

Churchill, Winston, 183-184

Classical

behavior of photons, 20, 23, 26, 28

physics, 36, 47, 55, 65, 106-111, 207

systems, 80

theories, 57-73

universe, 61, 75, 139, 179, 213-214

Climate Prediction Project, 158-159

Clocks, 45, 110, 121

Co-probability patterns, 83

Code breaking, 97-98, 161-165, 218

Cold fusion, 168

Coleman, Sidney, 206

Collapse, 178, 212

conscious observer hypothesis, 68-69, 207

by decoherence, 83-84, 203, 205

entropy and, 68

environmentally induced, 84, 133

by gravity, 201-206

GRW-based mechanisms, 198-210

Hilbert space, 80, 82, 83-84, 138, 161, 162

instantaneous, 12, 31, 71

in mind, 207-210

nonlocal case, 58, 69, 206

phase change metaphor, 30-31

probability, 199

times, 67-68, 203

Color, 15, 21-22, 180

Colossus computer, 162-163

Columbus, Christopher, 44, 113

Communication between worlds, 7-9, 137-138, 140-154, 229, 233-236.

See also Faster-than-light signaling

backward-in-time, 8-9, 10, 31-32, 36, 40, 42, 44, 47-48, 51, 52, 206

Compton effect, 15, 18-21

Compton, Arthur, 15, 21, 253

Computers. See also Quantum computers/computing

analog, 155-157, 168

Colossus, 162-163

digital, 156, 157, 168

information storage, 216

optical, 135, 240-242, 250

parallel processing, 157-159

Turning machines, 207, 208, 210

Condensed matter physics, 168

Consciousness, 191, 199, 207-210

Conscious observer. See also Observer effects

experiment, 229-230

Consistent histories

in many-worlds, 126, 127, 129, 131, 133, 175, 180, 181-182

tendril metaphor, 131

Context dependence, 84

Continuous universe, infinity of

information in, 213, 214-216, 243

Conway, John, 243, 244

Copenhagen interpretation, 63-67, 132-133, 152, 230

Copernican principle of mediocrity, 137, 182

Copernicus, 104

Correlations

angles of polarization, 34-35

lottery cards, 7-9

nonlocal, 220, 221

Cosmic background radiation, 85-86

Cosmic expansion, 69, 139, 249-250

CPT violation, 254

Cramer, John, 72-73

Cultural relativism, 100-102, 121, 200

Cushing, James, 240

D

Damping time, 86

DARPA, 52

Davies, Paul, 136

de Broglie, Louis, 62, 70

de Witt, Bryce, 134, 135

Decision theory, 177

Decoherence

collapse by, 83-84, 203, 205

and entropy, 86

environmentally induced, 53-54, 86, 129

experiments, 86-87

macroscopic effects, 175, 182

and many-worlds, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133-134, 138, 175-177, 178, 182, 236

strong vs. weak, 182, 230

testing, 85-86

time, 85, 86

turbulence analogy, 66

Delocalization, 85-86

Dennett, Daniel, 127

Detectors, 48, 50.

See also Measurement effect

bar-code scanner, 53

bomb, 142-153, 174, 204

environmental effect, 53-54

interaction-free, 150-154

radiation, 127

polarizing filters, 32-33, 40, 49

in two-slit experiment, 27-28

Deutsch, David, 70, 89, 130, 147, 155, 157, 159, 165, 169, 170, 174, 175-178, 184, 190, 196, 197, 200, 229, 230, 236, 240, 249

Deutsch-Wallace program, 178

Dice, 6, 9, 53

Dilbert Hotel, 159-162

Dilbert space, 165

Dimensions

of many-worlds, 171-172, 179, 181

of Hilbert space, 87-89, 181

Disch, Thomas, 192

Discontinuous function, 164-165

Disorder, 71-72

Distributed information, 217-222

Dodgson, Charles, 45

Domino effect, 56

Doppler effect, 122-123

Dowker, Fay, 182, 183

Du Fay, Charles, 114

E

Earth, 8, 34, 42

curvature, 111-113, 123

epicycle paradigm, 102-103

ether wind, 120

position of stars relative to, 136

potential states, 55-56

relocalization, 85

Earth Simulator supercomputer, 157

Echo Round His Bones, 192

Einstein, Albert, 6, 7, 12, 31-32, 53, 56, 62, 89, 103, 116, 120, 121, 128, 253

Elitzur-Vaidman experiment, 140-144, 174, 228

Electromagnetic waves, 110, 116-117, 119

Electrons, 9

Compton effect, 15, 18-21

detector, 254

information encoded in, 214-215

localization, 24

orbits/energy levels, 22-23

pointlike nature, 23

spin, 12, 32, 88, 166, 214-215

two-slit experiment, 23, 25

wave behavior, 23-24

Energy

flows, 68

gravitational, 201, 203

magnetic, 116, 117

mass-energy relation, 103

Enigma code, 163

Entanglement, 29-30, 206, 229, 242

and many-worlds, 126, 127, 166, 178

spooky links, 31, 226, 229

qubits, 166

of states, 83-84

surfer analogy, 34

Entropy, 68, 86, 246

Environmental effects. See also Decoherence

collapse induced by, 84, 133

of detectors, 53-54

Epicycles, 102-105

EPR paradox, 62, 90

Bell-Aspect experiment, 34-39, 41, 49, 51

local effects and, 130-132, 176

lottery card puzzle, 1-12, 36, 38, 61

predestination and, 72

surfer analogy, 31-32

Error correction, 87, 165

Escher, M. C., 199

Ether wind, 120-121, 245

Euler, Leonhard, 119-120

Event horizon, 246

Everett, Hugh, III, 133-134, 135, 138-139, 171, 184

Expectations

knowledge and, 60-61

of physical laws, 107-110, 112, 114, 118

F

Factoring, 96, 161-162, 164-165

Faraday, Michael, 114-116, 117, 118, 128

Faster-than-light signaling, 40, 42

Bell-Aspect experiment, 34-38, 62, 236-237

and causality, 72, 153

and many-worlds, 132, 176, 184, 206

paradoxical consequences, 45-48, 52

quantum tunneling and, 90-91, 228

spooky links and, 7-8, 31-32, 38, 51, 53-54, 58, 62, 129

Feynman, Richard, 71-72, 92-93, 155, 168, 242-243

Fields

electrostatic, 110, 114-115, 116, 117, 165

gravitational, 50, 82-83, 110-111, 116, 201-206

local interactions, 123

magnetic, 51, 110, 114, 115, 116, 117

quantum potential, 70-71

Fields Medal, 164

Fill-the-Gap, 98

Finite

dimensions of Hilbert space, 87-89

information storage and retrieval, 87

Fitzgerald, George, 117

Fleischmann, Martin, 168

Fluid dynamics, 66, 80, 118-119

Flux, 117, 201

Flat earth hypothesis, 111-113

Fourier analysis, 104

Free will, 9

Freezing metaphor, 30-31, 56

Friction, 86, 103, 110, 113

G

Galaxies, 136-137, 139

colliding, 241-242, 259

Galileo, 104

Game theory, 93

Games theory, 92-102

Gamma-ray photons, 204

Gardner, Martin, 214

Gaze test, 108

Gell-Mann, Murray, 181-183, 230

Ghiradi, G. C., 198

Gilbert, William, 114

Glashow, Sheldon, 206

Gods-playing-games metaphor, 92, 94-102, 184

Gödel, Kurt, 208

Gödel’s theorem, 210

Gravitational

collapse, 201-206

constant, 245

energy, 201, 203

field, 50, 82-83, 110-111, 112-113, 114, 123

interactions, 241-242

Griffiths, Robert, 181-182

GRW-based mechanisms, 198-210

Guide waves, 202.

See also Pilot waves

circular, 29

disruption by detector, 53, 142

epicycles compared, 105

and faster-than-light signaling, 38

hologram analogy, 54

and many-worlds, 128

packets, 150-151, 152

phantom field, 62

quantum potential, 70-71

for solid objects, 24

surfer analogy, 21, 24, 25-26, 34, 150-151

H

Hamlet, 237-238, 239

Hartle, James, 181-183

Harvard University, 206

Hawking, Stephen, 23, 200, 205, 246

Hawking radiation, 216

Hayden, Patrick, 130

Heaviside, Oliver, 117

Heisenberg, Werner, 25-26, 31, 64, 65, 90

High-finesse cavity experiment, 41, 204-205

Hidden local variables, 26, 38, 62, 72, 240, 242, 243-244, 245-250

Hilbert, David, 74, 160, 208

Hilbert hotel, 160-161, 208

Hilbert space, 74, 208

cat-box experiment, 81-83

collapse, 80, 82, 83-84, 138, 161, 162

computing in, 159-162, 165, 166

and context dependence, 84

density, 80

dimensional requirements, 87-89, 181, 248

many-worlds interpretations, 84, 126-127, 129, 133, 137, 138, 178-184

measurement effect in, 130, 138, 162

quantum tunneling and, 90-91

probability waves, 75, 77-80, 87, 90-91, 126-127, 133

real-space relationships, 90

Hiley, Basil, 71

History lines, 127

Holistic

behavior, 51

property of neurons in consciousness, 191

Holographic principle, 246

Holograms, 48-49, 54

Hooke, Robert, 114

Howard, Don, 64-65, 67

Human Genome Project, 158

Human Proteome Project, 158

I

Ignorance interpretation, 60-61, 195, 258

IGUSes, 183, 191-192, 247

Immortality, 189-192

Implicate order, 71

Inferential knowledge, 64

measurement effect, 28-29, 31, 39

Infinity, 58, 67, 77, 114, 170-172, 175, 176, 197, 201

of information, 213, 214-216, 238

Information

encoded in electron spin, 214-215

infinity of, 213, 214-216, 238

interpretation of, 216-217

nonlocal, 217-222

qubits of, 89, 166, 176

sharing between worlds, 138, 233-234

storage and retrieval limits, 87, 216, 243-244, 245-249

Informational Principle, 217, 222-226

Infrared photons, 213

Instantaneous

collapse, 12, 31, 71

everywhere-to-everywhere links, 72

gravitational effect, 114

long-range interactions, 118, 255

signaling, 8, 34, 45-46

Interaction-free detectors, 150-154, 228

Interactions. See also Entanglement

of particles, 29, 33, 34, 51, 54-55

of outcome worlds, 134, 178

and probability wave, 78-79

self-amplifying feedback, 118

and spatial localizations, 85

Interference, 14, 23, 24-25, 29, 48-49, 82, 86, 127, 129, 134, 143, 144, 149-150, 205, 213, 222-224, 230

International Date Line, 45

Internet

distributed projects, 157-159

security, 163-165

Interpretations of theories, 100-102, 115

Intuition, as quantum computing, 208-210

Inverse-square rule, 115, 255

Isolated systems, 118, 126-128

J

Joos, Erich, 85

K

Kent, Adrian, 154, 182, 183

Kepler, Johannes, 104

Knowledge, 10, 60-61, 88, 166, 175;

see also Inferential knowledge

Krakatoa argument, 196-197

L

Laplace, 250

Lattice model, 242-250

Lawrence, Sarah, 176

Lewis, C. S., 138, 259

Lewis David, 189, 190

Life, game of, 243, 244

Light. See also Photons

density of, 19

Faraday’s theory, 116

medium, 119-121

pressure of, 15

speed of, 19, 42, 110, 117, 120, 121, 245

two-slit experiment, 13

wave-particle paradox, 13-15, 15, 18

Local

cellular automaton, 118-119

conditions, 51, 52, 112-113

interactions, 85, 109, 117, 123, 130-132, 176, 184

stories, 240

universe, 240-242

Locality principle, 109, 113-114, 117, 118

and many-worlds, 128, 130-132, 176, 184

proof of, 130-131

Localization, 24.

See also Collapse

electrons, 24

spatial, 85

time, 45, 85

Lockwood, Michael, 129, 192

Lodge, Oliver, 117

Lorentz invariance, 206

Los Alamos National Laboratory, 163

Lottery

card puzzle, 1-12, 36, 38, 41-42, 52, 69, 130-132, 148

chances of winning, 188

tumbling cylinder, 50, 188

Lovelock, Jim, 257

M

Mach-Zender interferometer, 141-144, 203-204

Macro

effects, 40, 50, 55-56, 67, 175, 182, 187-188, 235

order, 254

systems, 59

Magic square, 99, 227

Magnetic

energy, 116, 117

fields, 51, 110, 114, 115, 116

pressure, 116

Mansouri, Reza, 206

Many-minds, 128-129

Many-worlds interpretations

Bohmian mechanics and, 70, 133

communication between worlds, 137-138, 140-154, 229, 233-236

consistent histories and, 126, 127, 131, 133, 175, 180, 181-182

decision theory and, 177

decoherence and, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133-134, 138, 175-177, 178, 182, 236

dimensions, 171-172, 179, 181

economy of assumptions, 171

entanglement and, 126, 127, 128, 132, 178, 206, 229

experiments, 229-236, 249-250

and faster-than-light influences, 132, 176, 184, 206

hidden-local-variable theory, 240, 242, 243-244, 245-250

Hilbert space and, 84, 126-127, 129, 133, 137, 138, 178, 179, 180-181, 182-183

information and resource sharing between worlds, 138, 233-234

interactions of outcome worlds, 134, 178, 205

and interference, 143, 144, 149-150, 205

local interactions, 130-132, 176, 184

multiplicity of worlds, 136-138, 170-171, 172, 236

no-assumptions claim, 127-128

no-collapse interpretations, 127, 133, 190

opponents, 198-210, 213

philosophical consequences of, 185-197

PPQs and, 126-128

probability of outcomes, 126-127, 133, 156, 157, 170-173, 174, 176-178, 179-180-181, 184

and randomness, 129-130

and special relativity, 132, 206

supporters, 132-133, 138-139, 169, 174-183

zero-probability outcomes, 134-135

Mars, 34, 42, 65

Marshall, William, 204-205

Mass-energy relation, 103

Massive parallelism, 157, 159-162, 207-208, 209-210

Max Planck Institute, 232

Maxwell, James, 116, 117, 119, 120

Measure, Everettian, 171-173, 174, 176, 178

Measurement

with analog computers, 155

angle of, 148, 170

defined, 55-56

of distance to stars, 136

“dialing in” metaphor, 229, 240

fundamental values, 249

gaze time, 108

of internal properties of particles, 88-89

magnetic pressure, 116

of polarization, 32-33, 35, 212

zero-interaction, 153-154, 174

Measurement effect, 12, 80, 228, 230.

See also Detectors;

Observer effect

amplification of, 41-42

in classical world, 154

in Hilbert space, 130, 138

of inferential knowledge, 28-29, 31, 39

on interference pattern, 24-25, 129, 143, 205, 222-224

phase-change metaphor, 30-31

surfer analogy, 28

Metaphysics, 250

Michelson-Morley experiment, 120-121

Might-have-beens, 54, 129

Mind

collapse in, 207-210

information patterns, 128

Mobius strip, 253

Molecule, 85

Momentum, 15, 21-22, 113

Monolithic bomb detector, 148-153, 228

Monopoly, 93-94

Monty Hall problem, 60-61

Multiverse, 135, 168, 177, 178, 179, 180, 189, 192, 196, 197, 238, 239

N

Newton, Isaac, 107, 114, 250

Newtonian worldview, 113

NMR measurement, 41

Nobel prize, 164, 246, 253

No-cloning theorem, 166

No-collapse interpretations, 127, 133, 190

Nonlocal information, 217-222

Nonlocality, 70, 71, 72, 114, 143, 226.

See also Action at a distance

and collapse, 58, 69, 206

guide waves and, 62

Hilbert space and, 88-89, 90

test of, 34-39, 41, 49, 51, 62, 88-89, 206

NP-complete problems, 166-167

Nuclei, 15, 41, 201

O

Observer effects. See also EPR paradox;

Measurement effect

collapse hypothesis, 68-69, 207

Copenhagen interpretation, 64-65, 67

quantum, 9-10, 25, 27, 38-39, 40, 58, 59

relativistic, 43-44, 110, 121-122

Occam’s razor, 9, 39, 115, 127, 136, 226, 237, 249

Olympus, 65, 94

Omnes, Roland, 181-182

Optical computer, 135, 240-241, 250

Oscillator, decoherence time, 86

Oxford interpretation, 184, 250

Oxford University, 129, 132, 140, 169, 174, 176, 177, 199, 203, 212

P

Paradigms, flawed, 102-105, 111-113

Paradoxes

of the absent-minded driver, 193

randomness and, 52-53

time travel, 43

of Wigner’s friend, 68-69

Parallax, 136

Parallel worlds, 138-139, 143, 155, 176, 233

Particles

collapse probability, 198

behavior, 12, 13, 14, 25, 58

entanglement, 29-30

in free space, 58

as knots in space-time, 243, 245

lifetimes, 24

internal properties, 88-89

Patterns

co-probability, 83

and cultural subjectivity, 96-101

lottery cards, 5

random, 217-219

in reality, 127, 128-129

two-slit experiment, 15, 17, 20, 23, 222-224

Paul, Harry, 151-152, 228

Pavicic, Mladen, 151-152, 228

Pearle, Philip, 198

Penrose, Roger, 133, 140, 169, 170, 199-210, 250

Periodicity of a function, 164-165

Personal identity, 185-197

Permeability, 117

Permittivity, 117

Perspectives

of physics, infant to adult, 107-111, 112

relativistic, 121-125

Phantom field, 62

Phase change, 30-31

Phlogiston, 102-103

Photons

bomb detector detonator, 142-144

classical behavior, 20, 23, 26, 28

Compton effect, 15, 18-21

density, 19

discriminating between wavelike and particle-like behavior, 140-144, 146-147

ghost, 152-153

guide waves, 24

localization time, 85

momentum, 21-22

monolithic resonator, 148-153

polarization, 12, 32-33, 88

surfer analogy, 28-29

wave packets, 150-151, 152

wavelength, 150

Pilot wave theory, 20-21, 23-24, 70-71, 133, 143.

See also Guide waves

Plaga, Rainer, 232-234

Planck, 253

Planck’s

constant, 21-22, 203, 245

length, 217, 243, 245

scale, 246

Podolsky, Boris, 12, 31, 62

Point-like

Big Bang, 254

particles, 23, 58, 62, 75

Pokemon, 94

Polarization, 12

angles of correlated pairs, 34-39

filter, 32-33, 40, 49

lottery cards as filters, 36, 38

measurement, 32-33, 35, 212

qubit storage, 166

rotator, 144-147

surfer analogy, 24, 32

Pons, Stanley, 168

Popper, Karl, 6, 64

Potential states, 55-56

PPQs, 40, 51-56, 89, 251-252

answers, 128-132

Predestination, 71-73, 184

Preferred basis, problem of, 181

Pressure

of light, 15

magnetic, 116

Price, Huw, 72, 73, 189, 254

Prigogine, Ilya, 248

Prime numbers, 96, 161-162, 164, 165

Principal Puzzles of Quantum. See PPQs

Probability

of collapse, 199

branching, 170-173, 176-178, 179

histories, 82

ignorance interpretation, 175, 195, 258

of many-worlds outcomes, 126-127, 133, 156, 157, 170-173, 174, 176-178, 179-180-181, 184

personal identity and, 193-196

rule of quantum, 61-63, 178

state space, 75, 77-80

transmission/reflection of photon, 35-36

waves, 61-63, 75, 77-80, 87, 90-91, 126-127, 133, 156, 157

Q

Quantum

algorithm, 163-165

consciousness, 207-210

ion superposition experiment, 232-234

potential, 70-71

roulette, 189, 197, 230-232

testing devices, 153-154

traditional interpretations, 57-73

tunneling, 90-91, 153, 228

Quantum computers/computing

applications, 87, 147, 156, 163-165, 166-168

architecture and hardware, 165-166, 168, 176

centers for, 169

collapse of Hilbert space, 138

error correction, 165, 166, 167

human brain as, 207-210

feasibility, 155, 230

information dissemination, 162

massively parallel processing, 157, 159-162, 209-210

operation, 138, 166

qubits, 89, 166, 167

Shor’s algorithm, 163-165, 168

Queen Bee hypothesis, 259-260

Qubits, 89, 176

entangled, 166

field theory, 176, 249

R

Rabbits, 82

Radioheads, 241-242

Randi, James, 6

Randomizing devices, 188, 195-196, 212, 230-232

Randomness, 6, 13-14, 23, 51-53, 159

distributed information, 217-219

spook links and, 9, 11, 53-54, 129

Rational expectation. See Expectations

Recording of information, 8, 162, 240

Relativity, 110-111

epicycles and, 105

general, 7, 87, 107, 116, 123, 200, 236, 246

and locality, 123

special, 42-48, 62, 71, 103, 107, 116, 120-123, 132, 206, 243

Relocalization, 85

Ripple, 19

effect, 29

tank, 30-31

Rimini, A., 198

Robertson, Howard, 206

Rohypnol, 193

Rosen, Nathan, 12, 31, 62

Russell, Jeffrey, 113

S

Saunders, Simon, 169, 184, 192, 195

Schiaparelli, Giovanni, 65

Schrödinger, Erwin, 23

Schrödinger’s

cat, 23, 59, 68-69, 73, 81, 83, 127, 232-234

wave equations, 58-59, 126, 132-133

Screensaver programs, 157-159

Screensaver-Lifesaver, 158

Self-amplifying feedback interactions, 118, 255

Separation

spacelike, 7, 11, 41-42, 44

timelike, 44-45, 46-47

SETI@home project, 158

Sexl, Roman, 206

Shannon information theory, 258

Shor, Peter, 164

Shor’s algorithm, 163-165, 168

Simulations, 162, 163, 215, 217

probability wave, 90-91

quantum processes, 80, 156, 167-168

wave mechanics, 30

Skyrmion, 253

Sleeping Beauty problem, 193-196

Solar sail, 15

Solar system, 104, 113, 120, 136

Solipsism, 10, 67

Spacecraft, 34, 43, 46, 75, 123-124

Spin

electron, 12, 32, 88, 166, 214-215

measurement, 88-89

network

qubit storage, 166

surfer analogy, 32

Splitting-worlds, 134-135, 178, 233

Spooky links, 31-32, 38, 46, 49, 50-51, 53-54, 62, 129-132, 221, 225-226, 229

Stalin, Josef, 183-184

State space, 74-75, 76, 179

Statistics, 9, 26, 40

physicists’ surnames, 70

probability distinguished from, 61-63

Steel, radioactive-free, 81

String theory, 116, 216, 243

Strong decoherence, 182, 230

Struldbruggs, 190-191, 257

Sturgeon analogy, 192-193

Soul, 210

Suicide, 42, 186, 187, 188-189, 231, 232

Sunlight, 85

Supercooled

atoms, 165

water, 30-31

Surfer analogy, 21, 24, 25-26, 28-29, 34, 49, 54-55, 70, 253

Swift, Jonathan, 190, 257

T

Tegmark, Max, 132, 186, 188, 191, 230-231, 237, 238, 239

Teleportation, 229

Tick-tack-toe analogies, 98-101, 180, 184, 226-227, 240

Time’s arrow, 67-68, 71, 72, 162, 179

Time travel, 45, 236

Trains

relativity thought experiment, 42-46, 206

story, 64

Transactional interpretation, 72-73

Transatlantic telegraph, 44-45

Traveling salesman problem, 166-167

Tree, decohering-worlds, 170-173, 177-178

Tunneling

phlogiston, 103

quantum, 90-91, 153, 228

Turbulence, 66

Turing, Alan, 207

Turnbull, C. M., 121

Twistors, 200

Two-slit experiments

atoms, 22

bowling balls, 13-14, 16, 21, 22, 27

buckeyballs, 86-87, 211-212, 213

chickens, 23-24, 25, 27, 53-54

detectors, 27-28, 53

electrons, 23, 25

of faster-than-light causality, 72

interference patterns, 23, 25, 86-87, 213, 222-224

light, 13-14, 19-21

with one slit closed, 142

pilot waves, 20-21, 23-24

single-photon, 19-21

splitting worlds, 134-135

water, 14-15, 17, 21

U

Uncertainty principle, 25-26, 29, 31, 90, 202

University of Heidelberg, 83

University of Vienna, 86, 206

V

Vacuum, localization time, 85

Vaidman, Lev, 140, 143, 169, 170, 175-176, 195, 229, 236

Valentini, Antony, 72, 73

van ’t Hooft, 246

Vectors

Bloch sphere, 88-89

defined, 117

of entangled particles, 34-36

Verne, Jules, 45

Victorian notions of ether, 245

von Neumann, John, 67-68, 199

Vonnegut, Kurt, 30-31

W

Wallace, David, 154, 177, 184, 191

Warping of space-time, 110, 123, 201-202, 245

Wave. See also Guide waves;

Pilot waves

electromagnetic, 110

interference, 14, 25, 149-150

mechanics, 13, 14, 17, 18, 58-59, 150-151

packets, 150-151, 152

probability, 75, 77-80

rider, 21, 24, 25-26, 28-29, 54-55, 56, 70

tsunami analogy, 58

Wavefunction

multiverse, 135

random collapse, 198-199

Wavelength, 14, 21-22, 48-49, 54-55, 150, 204, 213

Weak decoherence, 182, 230

Weather forecasting, 50, 55-56, 158-159, 163, 217

Weber, T., 198

Web site, 250

Weirdness, 41-42, 107, 224-225.

See also Spooky links

Wheeler, John, 133, 135

Wigner, Eugene, 68-69

World lines, 137

branching of, 170-173, 174, 182

and personal identity, 185-197

space-time curvature, 250

Wormholes, 201

Wynn, Karen, 108

X

X-ray photons, 204

XOR, 219, 220

Y

Young, Thomas, 13, 14-15

Z

Zeh, Dieter, 83, 87

Zeilinger, Anton, 86-87, 144, 147-148, 169, 170, 211-227, 228, 258

Informational Principle, 217, 222-226

Zero-interaction detector, 140-154, 174

Zero-probability outcomes, 134-135