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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

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