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Abstract thought
Adams, Douglas
Allen, Woody
Alpha Centauri
Alternating Gradient Synchrontron (AGS)
Altitude
Anderson, Carl
Andromeda
Angular momentum
Antichrist
Antielectron
Antimatter
Antimuon
Apollo 15 spaceship
Aristotelian grid
Aristotle
Arrows. See also Vectors
Artillery shells
Astronomy
“At rest,”
Atomic mass
Atoms
Atoms of hydrogen
Axiom, definition
Axiom of causality
Axioms, of Einstein’s theory of relativity
Bell Burnell, Jocelyn
Bern, Switzerland
Beryllium-8
Big bang
Binding energy
Black holes
Bound state
Box, world as a
Brahe, Tycho
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brooklyn Bridge
Brout, Robert
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
California Institute of Technology
Calvino, Italo, “The Distance of the Moon,”
Cathode ray tubes (CRTs)
Catholic Church
Causality and spacetime
Cause and effect. See also Causality
CERN (European Center for Particle Physics)
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar’s limit
Charged lepton
Chemical energy
Chemistry
China teapot analogy, of Bertrand
Claudius Ptolemaeus
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Coal power
Color detection, human eye
Conjecture
Conservation laws
Conservation of energy
Conservation of mass
Conservation of momentum
Conserved quantity
Coordinates spatial time
Copernicus
Cosmic speed limit . See also Speed of light
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de
Curvature of the earth
Curved spacetime
Davidson, Charles
Davy, Sir Humphry
Democritus
Deuteron
Dimensions
Dirac, Paul
Displacement current
Distance and spacetime
“Distance of the Moon” (Calvino)
Double pulsars
Dyson, Frank
Earth
early
formation of
geology
motion of
position in solar system
Eddington, Sir Arthur
Edison, Thomas
Egyptians, ancient
Eiffel Tower
Einstein, Albert
early career
“God does not play dice,”
general theory of relativity
special theory of relativity
Electricity
discovery of
and magnets
Electromagnetic fields
and the speed of light
static electricity
Electromagnetic induction
Electromagnetism
and weak nuclear force
Electron fields
Electron volt
Electron-positron pair
Electron
Electrostatic repulsion
Elementary particles
Elements (Euclid)
Elevator analogy
Empirical observation
Energy
binding
chemical
conservation of
defining
as heat
hydroelectric plants
kinetic
and mass
negative
nuclear
nuclear vs. chemical
wind and sea
Energy-momentum four-vector
Englert, Francois
Equations
fundamental
symmetry of
Equator
ETH (Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology)
Ether
Euclid
Euclidean geometry
European Center for Particle Physics (CERN)
Event in spacetime
Experiment, definition
Experiments for relativity of time thought
Eye, human
F=ma
Faraday, Michael
Femtometer
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Chicago
Feynman, Richard
Fields, concept of
Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce)
Flat spacetime. See also Minkowski spacetime
Flux lines
Force, definition
Forces of nature
Fundamental equations
Fusion, definition
Fusion, nuclear and heat
Future, travel to
Future lightcone
Galileo Galilei
Gamma rays
Gases
Gauge symmetry
Gell-Mann, Murray
General theory of relativity
Geodesics
Geometry
Euclidean
gravity as
non-Euclidean
Glashow, Sheldon
Gluons
“God does not play dice” (Einstein)
GPS satellite system
Grand unified theory
Gravitational waves
Gravity
and curved spacetime
and Earth’s orbit
and Einstein
as geometry
on the moon
Newton’s Law of
and the sun
variability
and weight
Great Circle
Great Fire of London
Green Bank telescope
Greenwich Meridian
Guralnik, Gerald
Hagen, Carl
Half-life
Harvard University
Heat, and fusion
Heat energy
Heavy carbon
Helium
burning