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INDEX
A
aberration 128
absolute distance 74–5
absolute motion 62, 119
absolute rest 126
absolute space 20, 62–3, 83–5, 92, 119–20, 235–7
absolute time 20, 64, 83–5, 92, 119–20
action 111–13
ADM formalism 167, 253
aether 124, 126–8, 130–1, 153
Alpha 42, 46
alpha particle tracks 284–7, 290–6
angular momentum 86–90
anthropic principle 25, 342
antiparlicles 191
Arnowitt, Richard 167
arrow of time 19, 25, 27, 34, 308
Ashtekar, Abhay 351
Aspect, Alain 217
atomic time 107
atoms 24–5, 49
ionization 284–7, 290–6
number in a pea, 46–8
spectral lines 188–9
Augustine, St 11
B
Baierlein, Ralph 175–6
Baker, Dame Janet 332
Banks, Tom 258
Barbour, Julian
collaboration with Bertotti, 113–18, 167–72, 238
Discovery of Dynamics, The 239
website, 5, 7, 345
Barrow, John 341
Bell, John 220–1, 284, 287, 299–302
Bell’s inequalities 221
Berkeley, Bishop 63, 322
Bernoulli, John 110
Bertotti, Bruno 113–18, 167–72, 238
Besso, Michele 163
best matching 116–17, 170–2, 173, 175–6, 236–7
bicycle riding 88
bifurcation 55
Big Bang 12, 46, 251, 317, 320, 321
Big Crunch 263, 317, 321, 328
black holes 38, 166, 319, 320
block universe 143
body, human, as a time capsule 33
Bohm, David 218, 352
Bohr, Niels 13, 188–9, 219
Boltzmann, Ludwig 24–5, 27–8, 34, 342–3
Born, Max 198, 286, 310
Bose-Einstein statistics 191
bosons 191
bound states 234–5
boundary conditions 253
‘brachistochrone’ problem 110
brain
damage 33
motion processing 28–30, 267
organization 31–2
state 26
as a time capsule 32–3
Broderick, Damien 358
Broglie, Louis de 189–90, 352
Brout, Robert 352
Brown, Harvey 353
Bruno, Giordano 75
BSW paper 176, 253
bucket experiment 62–3
C
calculus 63
Candide 111
canonical quantization 166
Capelin, Simon 239
Carnap, Rudolf 143
Carter, Brandon 341
causality 312–13
cells 33
centre of mass 79–81
centrifugal force 62–3
Chardin, Teilhard de 328
Christian, Joy 359
chronology of the universe 313–15
Clarke, Samuel 63
Clemence, Gerald 347
Clifton, Andrew 358
clocks 93–108
defined 135
earth’s rotation 106
gravitational effects 154–5
inertial 99–104
solar 97, 98
solar system 106–7
stellar 97, 98
universe as 107–8
water-clock 95
collapse of wave function 199–200, 204, 217–18, 224, 289, 295, 297
College Farm 3, 4
complementarity 204
complex numbers 197
configuration space 43, 208–9
configurations 41, 43, 228
collinear 75
Confucius 17
consciousness 26–8, 31, 52–3
continuum spectrum 235
coordinate grid 129–32, 140–1, 206
Copenhagen interpretation 202–4
Copernicus, Nicolaus 12, 32
correlations 224, 257
cosmology see quantum cosmology
cosmos, well-ordered 322
covariance, general 160, 163–4
creation 22, 64, 110–11, 229, 232–5, 251, 254–6
Creator 326–7
curved surfaces 157–8
extrinsic/intrinsic curvature 158
shortest path on 111–12
cycling 88
D
Davies, Paul 322, 336, 337, 341, 358
Davisson, Clinton 190
Dawkins, Richard 48, 210, 324–5
De Broglie, Louis 189–90
De Chardin, Teilhard 328
degrees of freedom 79
two true 244
Descartes, René
on existence 49–50, 53
on motion 61–2
Deser, Stanley 167
Deutsch, David 333, 337, 352, 358
DeWitt, Bryce 38, 39, 221, 224, 246–7, 257, 351
on many-worlds 224–5
Diana, Princess of Wales, death of 324, 360
Dido, Queen 109–10
difference
intrinsic 116–17, 172
provisional 171–2
diffraction 285
Dirac, Paul 2–3, 13, 15, 40, 167
on mental pictures 206
on self-interference 197
on space-time 2
spinor fields 191
transformation theory 206
Discovery of Dynamics, The 239, 344