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SUBJECT INDEX 545

overdetermination, 464-468
scalar, 233-235
various, 229
Fine-grained probability, 64
First World War, 242-244, 313
FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction, 122-123, 166,
167, 168
FitzGerald's work, Lorentz' knowledge of,
123-124
Fizeau experiment, 115-119, 123, 127, 139,
145, 150
Einstein and, 139, 145
von Laue and, 150
Lorentz and, 123
Poincare and, 127
Fluctuations, theory of, 55, 69-70, 435-436;
see also Energy fluctuations
Foucault pendulum, 282
Fresnel's aether hypothesis, 118, 123, 124
Fresnel's drag coefficient, 118, 123, 144-145
Friedmann universe, 62, 291
Galactic motions, 286
Galilean invariance, 140
Galilean transformations, 140
Gandhi's methods, 474
Gauge condition, 280
Gauge fields, local non-Abelian, 32, 33
Gauge transformations, 340-341
Gauss's theory of surfaces, 211-212
Gay-Lussac law, 81
Geiger-Bothe experiment, 445-446
Geometrization, program of, 33
Germany, Einstein and, 308, 312-318, 449-
450, 475
Gibbs's papers
Einstein knowledge of, 19, 55, 70, 72
Einstein on, 72-73
Gravitation, see also Gravitation, Einstein on
equivalence principle in, see Equivalence
principle
field equations of, see Field equations of
gravitation
field theories of, see Field theories of
gravitation
general covariance, 219-223
Lorentz on, 279
Maxwell's equations, 181-182
Nordstrom on, 229, 232-236
Poincare on, 129,279
rigid bodies, 214-216
structure of matter and, 253
variational principle applied to, 258
Gravitation, Einstein on, 178-182, 192-206
bending of light, 181-182, 194-200
detectable, 194-200

E = mc^2 for gravitational mass, 182

energy of, 196-198

equivalence principle, 179-181, 195-196,

203-205

general covariance, 221-223

Maxwell's equations, 181-182

Prague papers, 192-206

bending of light, 198-200

equivalence principle, 195-196

gravity of energy, 196-198

red shift, 180-181, 196-198

Hawking radiation, 292

Heisenberg

causality, 444

Einstein and, 441

indeterminacy, 334

Nobel prize, 24, 515, 516

quantum mechanics, 249, 441-442

simplicity, 467

uncertainty principle, 444, 445

other references, 20, 24, 249, 329, 362, 405,

420, 435, 440-442, 448, 516

Hidden variable, term 456

Hilbert condition, 280

Hubble's law, 268

Indistinguishability, 430-431

Indivisibility of matter, 85-86

Inertia

Einstein on, 287

Mach's law of, 284

Inertial frames, 138, 140, 141

Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, 6-7,

450, 453, 492-493

Invisibility of atoms, 86

Ions, 120

Israel, Einstein and, 475-477

presidency offered, 11, 476

Jeans law, 404

Jews, fate of, 12-13, 312, 314, 475, 518

Jupiter effect, 111

Kaluza theory, 329-334

Kaluza-Klein theory, 331-335, 347

Einstein on, 334-335

Kinetic theory of gases, 82-85

Kirchhoffs law of blackbody radiation, 26,

364-366

Klein theory, 329-336

Einstein on, 333-336

Kursunoglu's theory, 348

Lande factor, 247

Langevin extended electron model, 159