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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

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

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

discrete spectrum 234

dispersion relation 278

distance 74–5, 147, 150

absolute 74–5

in space-time 147, 150, 151

distinguished simplifier 120, 170–1

Dowker, Fay 353, 354–7, 359

duration 19, 100–3, 107, 123, 133, 136, 173

dynamics 12

Earth

as a clock 106

rotation 32, 87

as a time capsule 33

eclipses 98–9

Eddington, Arthur 165

eigenfunctions 234

eigenstates 201, 202

eigenvalues 234–5

eikonal equation 270

Einstein, Albert 11, 134–6, 153

equivalence principle 154

on general covariance 163–4

home in Pavia 114

on Mach 65, 66

Nobel Prize for Physics 187

on Nows 143

on quantum theory 13, 186–7, 188

on real objects 220

relativity theory 12, 15, 129–32, 151–2, 155

on rotating systems 156–7

and space-time 155–6, 159, 160, 161

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox 218–20

electromagnetism 124–6

electrons 188, 189–90, 191

Eliot, George 330–1

Eliot, T.S. 240

energy 23, 90–2 see also kinetic energy; potential energy

energy levels 188

entangled states 216–17, 222–4

entropy 23–5, 27–8, 289, 318–9

ephemeris time 107

EPR paradox 218–20

equation of time 98

equivalence principle 154, 176–7

eternity 36, 40, 328

Euler, Leonhard 111

events 139, 143

Everett, Hugh 221–7

everything, theory of 192

evolution 252, 256

excited states 234

experience 51–2, 53–4

faces 33

falling bodies 93–6

Faraday, Michael 15, 124

Fermat, Pierre de 110

Fermat’s principle 271, 272

Fermi-Dirac statistics 191

fermions 191

Feynman, Richard 244

on time 2

fields 124, 190–1, 222

Fischer, Arthur 344

Fitzgerald, George 128

fossils 33

Foster, Brendan 358

Fourier, Joseph 201

frames of reference 81–2

free will 324–6

Fresnel, Augustin Jean 124, 269

Friedmann, Alexander 317

Galileo Galilei 12, 61

falling ball experiment 93–6

odd numbers rule 93–4

parabolic motion 94, 95, 96

on relativity 81–2, 151–2

water-clock of 95

Gamow, George 284

gas 318

Gauss, Carl Friedrich 157–8

Gaussian wave packets 278

general covariance 160, 163–4

geodesics 112, 116–17, 118

geometrical optics 270–1, 288

geometrodynamics 167

geometry, non-Euclidean 157–8

Germer, Lester 190

Gill, Ann 344

Giulini, Domenico 348

God 22, 64, 110–11, 326–7

graffiti describing time 44–5

grand unified theory 192

gravitons 244

gravity 12, 15, 91

curving space-time 12, 159, 160, 161

and time 154–5

Grossman, Marcel 159, 161

ground state 234

group velocity 278

Guichardet, A. 347

Guth, Alan 359

haemoglobin 48

Halliwell, Jonathan 258

Hamilton, William Rowan 111, 268, 269–74

Hartle-Hawking wave function 359

Hartle, Jim 353, 354, 359

Hawking, Stephen 39, 258

on Big Bang 320

on black holes 166, 319

on end of physics 13–14

on time travel 329

no-boundary proposal 312

heaven 327–8

Heggie, Douglas 346

Heisenberg, Werner 13, 189, 284

Heisenberg cut 296

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle 205

Heraclitus 1, 330

Hero of Alexandria 110

Hilbert space 193, 206

Hipparchus 98

history 69, 282–3, 287–92 see also records

Hofmann, Wenzel 115

Holland, Peter 352

Hopkins, Gerard Manley 75, 323

Hoyle, Fred 359

human body as a time capsule 33

Hut, Piet 346

hyperplanes 143–4

identity of indiscernibles 85–6

inertia 62, 65, 93

inertial clock 99–104

inertial frame of reference 82

inflation 359

initial conditions 22, 253

instants of time 16, 18, 247, 265–6

interactions 104–5

interference 124, 125, 195–6

self- 197

fringes 196

intrinsic difference 116–17, 172

intrinsic time 245

invariable plane 88

ionization 284–7, 290–6

Isham, Christopher 351

James, William 28

Kant, Immanuel 207

Kaon decay 342

Keats, John 326, 331

Kepler, Johannes 2, 12, 98, 164, 269

Kiefer, Claus 352, 353

kinematic relativity 152

kinetic energy 90, 108, 112

Klein-Gordon equation 351

Kretschmann, Erich 164

Kubasiak, Gretchen Mills 334, 338–40

Kuchař, Karel 172–3, 238–9, 246, 349, 351

Kuhn, Thomas 115

LaFlamme, Raymond 358

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis de 111

Lanczos, Cornelius 268–9