Index intelligence level 87 quasars 90-2, 95-6 married 86
anthropic principle 165
Nobel Prize? 166-7 radiation 130, 169-70 Pope Pius medal 149-50 relativity theory 9-11, 13,
Bekenstein, Jacob 130-5 Royal Society 146
28, 160
thesis 67-73
Bell, Jocelyn 103
Hawking's law of area satellites 118-19
Bethe, Hans 110-11
big bang theory 49-51, 68, increase 125
Schrodinger, Erwin 157
74, 82- 5, 101,148-62 Heisenberg, Werner 135-6, Schwarzchild big crunch 49-51, 165 144 geometry 46-53 black holes 41, 80, 91, Hoyle, Fred 66, 68-72, 84 radius 115
106-25, 130-45
finding 118-19
Hawking 121-2, 13011
see also gravitational collapse
Boltzmann, Ludwig 128
Born, Max 159
Hubble, Edwin 50-1
inflation 163-4
Kepler, Johannes 19
law of motion 27
laws of
Schwarzchild, Karl 46-7, 79
Sciama, Dennis 7, 66,
73-6, 140
Singularities of Gravitational
Collapse 102
singularity 75-84, 102, 114
see also black holes
Smoot, George 170-2
Catholic Church 146-52 black hole mechanics 133 solar COBE satellite 168-72 thermodynamics 126-9, eclipse 42-3 complex time 157 133 system 18 cosmic radiation 97 Lemaitre, Abbe 50-1 space curvature 30-43 cosmological constant 48 Schwarzchild 46-7 cosmology 12, 88-91 mass 14, 16-17, 24- 7 singularity 78-9
Mercury, perihelion 22, 35-9 stars 109-14
Dyson, Freeman 139, 143 microwaves 99-101
motor neurone disease 4-7
steady state theory 102
eclipse 42-3
Eddington, Arthur S. 43, 11 O Narlikar, Jayant 69
57
Einstein, Albert 28-45, 48, neutron stars 104-5,
112-13
Taylor, John 141
theory of everything 155
thermal radiation 98-100
black holes 130
see also relativity theory Newton, Isaac 11 , 13, 14-19 thermodynamics, laws of electromagnetic spectrum law of motion 27 126-9, 133
93
No Boundary Proposal black holes 138
entropy 126, 131 - 5, 138 151- 2, 155-6, 162-3, Thorne, Kip 121-2, 146 equivalence principle 34
event horizon 113-16,
136-7
On the Internal Constitution uncertainty principle 136,
of Stars 110
158
Oppenheimer, J. Robert universe
Feynman, Richard 155
Friedmann, Alexander 48-9
52-6, 58-63
partial theories 13
beginnings 81, 150-65
evolution 85
expanding 48-51, 96
Galilei, Galileo 147
Gamow, Georges 97
geodesics 30
God 29
particles 158
flat 49, 163
see also virtual particles history 101
Penrose, Roger 8, 75-81 see also big bang theory
Penzias, Arno 100-1 , 168 universes, other 160-1
Gold, Thomas 91, 105 Planck, Max 98-9, 143 gravitation 14, 26-7 Planck's constant 136 vacuum solution 39
see also space curvature Principia 18, 20, 22-3 virtual particles 135-6 gravitational collapse 47, principle of equivalence 34
52-4, 60-3
gravity 12- 27, 30, 144, 154
pulsars 104-5
quantum wave function 154, 157-9
wavelengths 93-4
Weinberg, Steven 165
Halley, Edmund 18- 20
Hartle, Jim 154-7, 160-1
Hawking, Stephen born 56
illness 4-7
cosmology 154, 157, Wheeler, John 58-63, 106,
160, 165
117, 131-2
fluctuations 164
white dwarf 112-13
gravity 144, 154
mechanics 159
theory 153
Wilde, Jane 7-8
Wilson, Robert 100-1 , 168
