A brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes

Weight: The force exerted on a body by a gravitational field. It is proportional to, but not the same
as, its mass.
White dwarf: A stable cold star, supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between electrons.
Wormhole: A thin tube of space-time connecting distant regions of the universe. Wormholes might
also link to parallel or baby universes and could provide the possibility of time travel.

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INDEX
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bacus 166–167
bsolute position 20–21, 37
bsolute time 21, 23, 25, 97, 162
cceleration 18–19
ge of the universe 88–89, 93, 123, 132–134
r resistance 18
brecht, Andreas 149
pha Centauri 27, 176–179
pher, Ralph 134
nthropic principle 140–144, 150–151, 156, 171–172, 197–198
ntiparticles 77–78, 86–87, 121–122, 132, 146, 163, 184–185, 196
istotle 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19–21, 44, 71, 209
rows of time 164–168, 171
symptotic freedom 83
om 68, 69–72, 74, 80, 88–89, 133, 187–188, 200
see also Nuclear energy; Nuclear force; Nuclear fusion; Nucleus
xis of symmetry 104
ardeen, Jim 118
ekenstein, Jacob 118–189
ell-Burnell, Jocelyn 106
ell Telephone Laboratories 48
entley, Richard 6
ethe, Hans 134
g bang 10–11, 50–52, 55–60, 130–133, 137–139, 143–151
g crunch 50–52, 130, 208
ack holes 70, 90–93, 100–131, 135–136, 140–141, 158, 184–185
emissions 117–120
primordial 121–123, 140–141
properties 113–115
rotating 102–104
ohr, Niels 68–69

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ondi, Herman 55–56
orn, Max 188
ownian motion 72
alculus 220
arbon 135, 141
arter, Brandon 104, 118
asimir effect 180, 181
atholic Church 55, 131, 215–216
ERN 5, 12–13, 55, 81, 84–85, 153, 176, 178–179, 216–217
see also European Centre for Nuclear Research
hadwick, James 73
handrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 93–96, 110
handrasekhar limit 94–96
haotic boundary conditions 138–139
haotic inflationary model 150, 158
ty of God, The (St Augustine) 8
osed loops 186, 191
old stars 96
ollapsing universe see Contracting universe
omplete unified theory 13–15, 142, 173–175, 183, 187–188, 201–203
see also Grand unified theory
onfinement 82–88
ontracting universe 171
oordinates 27–28
opernicus, Nicholas 4–6, 143, 215–217
osmic censorship 100, 185
osmic strings 176
osmological arrow of time 165, 168
osmological constant 47, 145, 147, 150, 171, 175–176, 196
osmology 54, 96, 131, 145
eation 8–10, 54–55, 120, 131, 141–142, 155, 184, 206
itical speed 46
ritique of Pure Reason (Kant) 9
onin, J. W. 88
ygnus X–1 107–109
alton, John 72
arwin, Charles 15
emocritus 71
ensity:
black holes 97–99
matter particles 57–58, 75–77
universe 10–11, 47–52
eterminism 59–62, 206–207
alogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo) 216
cke, Bob 49
mensions 153–154, 196–200, 208
rac, Paul 64, 77, 188
oppler effect 45–46, 53

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rth 3–6, 31–44, 134–142
circumference 2
motion 2
shape 2
lipses 2, 21
ddington, Arthur 94–96, 171, 203
nstein, Albert 12, 31–39, 23–24, 47, 70–72, 95, 130, 171, 179, 187–189
biography 211–213
see also Relativity; Special relativity; Energy equation
nstein–Rosen bridge 179–180
asticity 188
ectric charge 72, 141–142
ectrical force 199
ectromagnetic field 22, 45, 74–75
ectromagnetic force 80–81, 132, 144, 188
ectromagnetic waves 46, 62
ectron 67–80, 72–75, 77, 78–80, 83, 84–85, 87–89, 95, 120, 132–133, 134, 199, 202
ectroweak unification theory 202
ementary particles 71–72, 73–75, 77, 79, 81–85, 89, 178
ements 2, 11, 44, 72, 133–134, 135–136, 140–142, 143, 166, 176
nergy 37, 62, 80–85
black holes 121–123
conservation of 146–147