1. Steven Kotler, West of Jesus (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006).
1. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (New York: Penguin Classics, 1994).
2. Homeric Hymn to Demeter, trans. from the Greek by Hugh G. Evelyn-White and first published by the Loeb Classical Library in 1914, earlywomenmasters.net/demeter/myth_470.html.
3. Albert Hofmann, LSD, My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Marion Giebel, Das Geheimnis der Mysterien (Mannheim: Artemis, 2003); Carl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypical Image of Mother and Daughter (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
4. Carl A. P. Ruck, in R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. P. Ruck, The Road to Eleusis (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978).
5. Kerenyi, Eleusis.
6. Hofmann, LSD.
7. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2011).
8. The Doors, “Break on Through” (Hollywood: Sunset Sound Recorders, 1966).
9. Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1963).
10. Hofmann, LSD.
11. Wasson, Hofmann, and Ruck, Road to Eleusis.
12. Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy.
13. Hofmann, LSD.
14. Giebel, Mysterien.
15. Jürgen Aschaff et al., Die Zeit—Dauer und Augenblick (Munich: Piper, 1989).
1. Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (New York: Harper & Row, 1972).
2. Armin Hermann, Rowohlt Monographie Werner Heisenberg (German edition) (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2001).
3. Thomas Powers, Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (New York: Knopf, 1993).
4. Paul Lawrence Rose, Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939–1945: A Study in German Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Jeremy Bernstein, Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall (New York: Springer, 2000).
5. Powers, Heisenberg’s War.
6. “Comment by Jochen Heisenberg,” wernerheisenberg.unh.edu /washsys.htm.
7. Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (New York: Anchor, 2000).
8. Hermann, Rowohlt.
9. Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967).
10. Werner Heisenberg, Der Teil und das Ganze (Munich: Piper, 2002), my translation.
11. Erwin Schrödinger, “Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik” [The present situation in quantum mechanics], Naturwissenschaften 23, no. 48 (1935): 807–812, trans. John D. Trimmer, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (1980): 323–338.
12. R. Corby Hovis and Helge Kragh, “P.A.M. Dirac and the Beauty of Physics,” Scientific American 268, no. 5 (May 1993): 104–109.
13. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
14. Hermann, Rowohlt.
15. Erwin Schrödinger, Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
16. Hovis and Kragh, “P.A.M. Dirac.”
17. Johann W. von Goethe, “Natur und Kunst,” trans. Robert J. Richards, in Robert J. Richards, “Nature Is the Poetry of Mind, or How Schelling Solved Goethe’s Kantian Problems,” home.uchicago.edu/~rjr6/articles/Schelling-Goethe.pdf.
18. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981).
19. A. H. Coxon, The Fragments of Parmenides: A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation, the Ancient Testimonia and a Commentary (Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2009).
20. Parmenides, “On Nature,” philoctetes.free.fr/parmenides.pdf.
21. Huxley, Doors of Perception.
22. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, “Parmenides und die Quantentheorie,” in Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser-Verlag, 1982).
23. Plato, Parmenides (Kittening: Arc Manor, 2008).
24. Luciano De Crescenzo, Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie (Zurich: Diogenes, 1985), my translation.
25. Weizsäcker, “Parmenides.”
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., my translation.
28. William Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (Wellesley: Branden Books, 1983).
29. Heraclitus, “Fragment 52,” cited in the Wikipedia article “Heraclitus,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/heraclitus#cite_note-53.
30. Peter Aldous, “Interview with Mark Oliver Everett (E),” New Scientist, November 24, 2007.
31. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Harmony Books, 1979).
1. Betrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, 1967).
2. Betrand Russell, Denker des Abendlandes (Bindlach: Gondrom, 2000), my translation.
3. Gary Taubes, Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment (New York: Random House, 1987).
4. Ibid.
1. King James Bible, Exodus 3:8.
2. Auguste Dick, Emmy Noether, 1882–1935 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift Elemente der Mathematik) (Basel: Birkhäuser, 1970).
3. Plato, Timaios (German edition) (Ditzingen: Reclam 2003), my translation.
4. Werner Heisenberg, Hans-Peter Dürr, Walter Blum, and Helmut Rechenberg, Werner Heisenberg, Gesammelte Werke. Collected Works, part C, vol. 3: Physik und Erkenntnis 1969–1976 (Munich: Piper, 1985).
5. Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide.
6. Hans-Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Heinrich Päs, Beyond the Desert: Workshop on Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model (Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing, 1998).
1. “Henry Cowell Piano Music,” Three Irish Legends, cowellpiano.com/TIL.html.
2. Rolf Heuer, press conference and interview, Deutsche Welle (Germany), www.dw.de/cern-director-general-says-the-work-starts-now/a-16072369.
3. Plato, The Republic (Hollywood, FL: Simon & Brown, 2013).
4. Abdus Salam, “Gauge Unification of Fundamental Forces,” Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979, www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam-lecture.html.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (New York: Vintage Books, 2000).
1. Christine Sutton, Spaceship Neutrino (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
2. I owe this comparison to Yorck Ramachers, a member of our Heidelberg research group and now professor at the University of Warwick, UK.
3. David Lindorf, Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2004).
4. Sutton, Spaceship Neutrino.
5. Jan Philipp Bornebusch, “Das ‘Gewissen’ der Physik—Am 15. Dezember 1958 starb Wolfgang Pauli,” Spektrum Direkt, www.spektrum.de/alias/quantenphysik/das-gewissen-der-physik/976922.
6. Fred Hoyle, Bibliography, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. A, 301 (1967): 171.
7. Necia Grant Cooper, ed., “Celebrating the Neutrino,” Los Alamos Science 25 (1997).
8. Ibid.
9. Leonardo Sciascia, Das Verschwinden des Ettore Majorana (Berlin: Wagenbach, 2003).
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Tommaso Dorigo, “Ettore Majorana: The Mystery Might Be Solved,” www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/ettore_majorana_mystery_might_be_solved-79823.
13. Oleg B. Zaslavskii, “Quantum Mechanics of Destiny,” Priroda 11 (2006): 5–63; e-print arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605001.
14. E. Akhmedov, private communication.
1. Takaaki Kajita, talk at the Eighteenth International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (NEUTRINO ’98), Takayama, Japan, June 4–9, 1998.
2. Hitoshi Murayama, “The Origin of Neutrino Mass,” Physics World (May 2002): 35.
3. U.S. President Bill Clinton at the MIT commencement, June 6, 1998, clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980605-28045.html.
4. Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001).
5. Ray Davis, “A Half-Century with Solar Neutrinos,” Nobel Lecture, December 8, 2002, www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2002/davis-lecture.pdf.
6. Wick Haxton, “The Scientific Life of John Bahcall,” Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 59 (2009): 1–20, e-print arxiv.org/abs/0904.2865.
7. Palash B. Pal, private communication.
8. Alexei Yu. Smirnov, private communication.
9. John Learned, “Discovery of Neutrino Mass and Oscillations,” www.phys.hawaii.edu/~jgl/nuosc_story.html.
10. Arthur McDonald, private communication.
1. Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes (New York: Basic Books 1993).
2. www.boston.com/realestate/galleries/springsweep/13.htm.
3. Alan Guth, The Inflationary Universe (New York: Basic Books, 1998).
4. Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Niemeyer 2006), trans. Michael Inwood, “Does the Nothing Noth?” in German Philosophy since Kant, ed. Antony O’Hear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
1. Peter Minkowski, private communication.
1. ScienceWatch interview with Nima Arkani-Hamed, www.esi-topics.com/brane/interviews/DrArkani-Hamed.html.
2. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Georgi Dvali, “The Universe’s Unseen Dimensions,” Scientific American 283, no. 2 (August 2000): 62–69.
3. Daniela Wünsch, “Der Erfinder der fünften Dimension,” Neue Züricher Zeitung, January 21, 2004, termessos.de/PIX/Kaluza/NZZ_Onlineed.html, my translation.
4. Greene, Elegant Universe.
5. Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (New York: Basic Books, 2007).
6. Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Boston: Back Bay Books, 2006).
7. Goran Senjanovic, private communication.
8. Lisa Randall, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions (New York: HarperPerennial, 2006).
1. Armin Herrmann, Einstein—der Weltweise und sein Jahrhundert (Munich: Piper, 1994).
2. Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay, An Introduction to Black Holes, Information, and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe (Singapore: World Scientific, 2005).
3. It is often questioned whether Einstein indeed knew of the Michelson-Morley-experiment, a question addressed by Jeroen van Dongen, “On the Role of the Michelson-Morley Experiment: Einstein in Chicago,” e-print arxiv.org/abs/0908.1545.
4. Compare Matt Visser, Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein to Hawking (College Park, MD: American Institute of Physics, 1996).
1. Paul Yourgrau, A World without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein (New York: Basic Books, 2006).
2. Jim Holt, “Time Bandits: What Were Einstein and Gödel Talking About?” New Yorker, February 28, 2005.
3. Frank J. Tipler, “Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation,” Physical Review D 9 (1974): 2203–2206.
4. Kip Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995).
5. Robert A. Heinlein, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (New York: Tor Books, 2002).
6. “Avengers Forever Villains,” marvelite.prohosting.com/surfer/cmarvel/afvillains.html.
7. Stephen W. Hawking, “The Chronology Protection Conjecture,” Physical Review D 46 (1992): 603–611.
8. Stephen W. Hawking, “Space and Time Warps,” lecture, hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html.
1. Dan Brown, Angels and Demons (New York: Atria, 2003).
2. Visser, Lorentzian Wormholes.
3. Leonard Susskind, e-print arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0504039.
4. Visser, Lorentzian Wormholes.
5. Marcus Chown, “The Extra-dimensional Time Machine,” BBC Focus, October 2006, 52–56.
6. Joe Haldeman, The Accidental Time Machine (New York: Ace Hardcover, 2007).
7. Mark Alpert, Final Theory (New York: Touchstone, 2008).
8. David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood, “The Quantum Physics of Time Travel,” Scientific American 270, no. 3 (1994): 68–74.
1. Interview with Torsten Schmidt, www.desy.de/expo2000/deutsch/dhtmlbrowser/webthemen/21_amanda/antarctica.htm 126.
1. Peter Schilling, “Major Tom (Coming Home)” (New York: Elektra Records, 1983).
2. David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes” (New York: RCA Records, 1980).
3. Jack Kerouac, “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose,” 1959, www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html.
4. Karl Popper, All Life Is Problem Solving (London: Routledge, 2001).
5. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
6. Paul Watzlawik, ed., Die erfundene Wirklichkeit (Munich: Piper, 1981).
7. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (New York: Scribner, 1996).
8. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (New York: Penguin, 2005).
9. Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy.
10. Ulrich M. Schneede, Vincent van Gogh: Leben und Werk (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003).
11. Ernest Hemingway, “Old Newsman Writes,” Esquire, December 1934, 26.
12. Cover, New Scientist 2615, August 4, 2007.