Taking the Quantum Leap (Wolf), 150
Tao of Physics, The (Capra), 136, 137, 142–50
Telegraph Avenue, 156
Teller, Edward, 106
Theoria to Theory, 147
thermonuclear reactions, 94
Thorne, Kip, 218, 219, 220, 221, 264, 266, 267
Thousands, Not Billions (DeYoung), 246
toluene, 43
Traveling at the Speed of Thought (Kennefick), 264
tritium for hydrogen bombs, 43
Truman, Harry S., 94
“Tube Alloys” project, 24
Turchetti, Simone, 45
Turing, Alan, 91, 92
Turner, Michael, 199, 200
“21-centimeter line,” 207
uncertainty principle (Heisenberg), 2, 119, 122, 126
undergraduate physics enrollments in 1943, 78
United Nations, 213
uranium, 34
US Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, 46
variable equation-of-state quintessence, 255
Vietnam War, 9, 109, 138
Vilenkin, Alex, 244
von Neumann, John, 89, 90, 91, 93; artillery tables, 92; in Atomic Energy Commission, 95; computer, 92; death by cancer, 96; government contracts, 92; stored-program computation, 91; wartime weapons project, 90
von Neumann, Klári, 92; coding bomb simulations, 92
“war commodity,” 84
Watts, Alan, 138; teachings, 139
wave equation for quantum mechanics. See Schrödinger equation
wave-particle duality, 126
Weinberg, Steven, 199, 220, 224
Weiss, Rainer, 264, 265–66, 269
Weiss, Talia, 50
Weisskopf, Victor, 139
Wheeler, John, 198, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225
When Computers Were Human (Grier), 90
W. H. Freeman, 222–23
Whitcomb, John, 240
Wiener Würstelabende, 30
Wiesner, Jerome B., 107
Wilczek, Frank, 177, 193
Wilde, Jane, 273
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), 253
William Herschel Telescope, 64–66, 66
Williams, Alex, 246
Williams College, 76, 78, 227
Wolf, Fred Alan, 150
Wright, Aaron, 257
Z bosons, 179
Zee, Anthony, 197, 198
Zeilinger, Anton, 4–5, 59, 60, 60, 64
Zeilinger’s laboratory, 61, 62
Zukav, Gary, 150
Zweig, George, 165
Zyklon B, 37