The Perfect Theory
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effects of inflationary universe model on, [>]
Einstein and, [>], [>]
geometry of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
observational evidence of, [>]–[>]
Sakharov and, [>]–[>]
in string theory, [>]–[>]
wave theory of, [>]
special theory of relativity. See relativity, special
Spergel, David: and cosmological constant, [>]
on cosmology, [>]
spin networks: Penrose creates, [>]
and quantum gravity, [>], [>]
Square Kilometer Array (SKA), [>]–[>]
Stalin, Joseph: “Dialectical and Historical Materialism,” [>]
and Soviet atomic bomb project, [>]–[>]
standard model of forces, [>], [>], [>]
and dark matter, [>]
Dirac and, [>]
Efstathiou and, [>]–[>]
Glashow and, [>]
Hawking and, [>]
Salam and, [>], [>]
and string theory, [>], [>]–[>]
Weinberg and, [>], [>], [>]
Star Trek (TV series), [>]
Stark, Johannes, [>]
attacks Heisenberg, [>]
rejects general relativity, [>]
Starobinsky, Alexei, [>]
stars: Eddington and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
globular clusters, [>]
gravity’s effect on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
neutron stars, [>], [>], [>], [>]
quantum physics and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
sources of energy in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
supernovae, [>]
[>]-ray stars, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
stars, evolution and decay of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also black holes
Chandra and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Eddington and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Einstein and, [>]–[>]
Fowler and, [>]–[>], [>]
Landau and, [>], [>], [>]
Oppenheimer and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Snyder and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wheeler and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
white dwarfs, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Stars and Atoms (Eddington), [>]
static model of universe, [>], [>]. See also steady-state theory
de Sitter and, [>], [>]
Einstein promotes, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
instability of, [>]
steady-state theory. See also static model of universe
Bondi and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Born on, [>]
Einstein on, [>]
Gold and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Heisenberg and, [>]
Hoyle promotes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Milne on, [>]
Rees and, [>]
Ryle attacks, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Sciama and, [>]–[>], [>]
Steinhardt, Paul: and cosmological constant, [>]
Stern, Otto, [>]
string theory: and “Big Bang” theory, [>]–[>]
Calabi-Yau geometry and, [>]
Candelas and, [>], [>]
cosmological constant in, [>]
and covariant approach to spacetime, [>], [>]
DeWitt on, [>]
Duff on, [>]–[>]
Feynman on, [>]
Friedan on, [>]
Gell-Mann and, [>]–[>]
general relativity and, [>]–[>]
Glashow on, [>]
gravitons in, [>]
Green and, [>], [>]
Hawking on, [>]
Horowitz and, [>]
hostility toward, [>]–[>]
M-theory of, [>], [>], [>], [>]
multiverse model in, [>]
principles and flaws of, [>], [>]–[>]
and quantum gravity, [>], [>], [>]
Schwartz and, [>], [>]–[>]
Smolin on, [>]
spacetime in, [>]–[>]
standard model and, [>], [>]–[>]
Strominger and, [>], [>]
superstrings, [>]
Vafa and, [>]
Witten and, [>], [>], [>]
Strominger, Andrew: and string theory, [>], [>]
strong force: in unified theory, [>]–[>], [>]
Sunyaev, Rashid, [>]
Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP): and cosmological constant, [>]–[>]
supernovae, [>]
and cosmological constant, [>]
and gravity waves, [>]
supersymmetry: Hawking and, [>]–[>]
Taylor, Joseph, Jr., [>]
and neutron stars, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Teller, Edward, [>], [>], [>]
tensor-vector-scalar theory of gravity (TeVeS): Bekenstein and, [>]–[>]
and general relativity, [>]
Texas Symposiums on Relativistic Astrophysics, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and quasars, [>]–[>]
thermodynamics, second law of. See entropy
Thompson, J. J., [>], [>]–[>]
Thorne, Kip, [>], [>]
and black holes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and gravity waves, [>], [>], [>]
thought experiments: Bondi performs, [>]
Einstein performs, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Wheeler performs, [>]
time travel: Gödel and, [>]–[>]
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro: and quantum electrodynamics, [>]
Townes, Charles: wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Turner, Herbert, [>]–[>]
Turner, Michael: and cosmological constant, [>]
on cosmology, [>]–[>]
Tyson, Tony: on gravity waves, [>]
Uhuru (satellite), [>]
uncertainty principle: in quantum physics, [>]–[>]
unified theory: CERN and, [>], [>]
Dirac and, [>]–[>]
Eddington and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Einstein’s search for, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
electromagnetism in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
electroweak force in, [>], [>]
field equations in, [>]
gravity in, [>]–[>]
inflationary universe model in, [>]
quantum electrodynamics and, [>]–[>], [>]
spacetime geometry in, [>]
strong force in, [>]–[>], [>]
weak force in, [>]–[>], [>]
United States: Atomic Energy Commission, [>]
Einstein emigrates to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Gödel emigrates to, [>]
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), [>], [>]
universe: CDM model of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
concordance model of, [>]–[>]
de Sitter on age of, [>]
distribution of energy and matter in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
distribution of radio sources in, [>]–[>], [>]
evolution of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
expanding model of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
inflation model of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
origin theories of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
proposed rotation of, [>]
static model of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
University of Bern: Einstein as lecturer at, [>]
University of Zurich: Einstein as professor at, [>]
Uranus: orbit of, [>]
Vafa, Cumrun: and string theory, [>]
Volkoff, George, [>]–[>]
Von Neumann, John, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Vulcan: as theoretical planet, [>], [>]
weak force: gravity as, [>]
in unified theory, [>]–[>], [>]
Weber, Jo
seph: background and personality of, [>], [>]–[>]
Dyson and, [>]–[>]
experimental methodology questioned, [>]–[>]
and laser interferometry, [>]
searches for gravity waves, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Weber bars: and search for gravity waves, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Weinberg, Steven, [>], [>]
and electroweak force, [>]
and general relativity, [>]
Gravitation and Cosmology, [>], [>]
and standard model, [>], [>], [>]
Weiss, Rainer, [>]
Weyl, Hermann, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and expanding universe model, [>], [>], [>]
Wheeler, John Archibald, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
background of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and black holes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and canonical approach to spacetime, [>], [>], [>]
creates “Wheelerisms,” [>]–[>], [>]
and DeWitt, [>]
and Feynman, [>]
and general relativity, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Manhattan Project, [>]
and nuclear physics, [>], [>], [>]
performs thought experiments, [>]
personality of, [>]–[>]
political opinions, [>]
and quantum physics, [>], [>]
and stellar evolution and decay, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and wormholes, [>]
Wheeler, John Archibald, Charles Misner & Kip Thorne: Gravitation, [>]
Wheeler-DeWitt equation, [>], [>], [>], [>]
White, Simon: and cosmological constant, [>]
and galaxy formation, [>]
white dwarf stars, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Whitehead, Alfred North & Bertrand Russell: Principia Mathematica, [>]
Wilson, Robert: and “Big Bang” theory, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Witten, Edward, [>]
and string theory, [>], [>], [>]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: and incompleteness theorem, [>]
Woit, Peter: and quantum gravity, [>]
Wolfe, Arthur: and “Big Bang” theory, [>]
World War I: British scientists and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Einstein and, [>]–[>], [>]
Friedmann in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Hubble in, [>]
Lemaître in, [>]
Schwarzschild in, [>]
World War II: beginning of, [>]
nuclear physics develops in, [>]–[>]
radar development in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
World Wide Web, [>]
wormholes: Wheeler and, [>]
x-ray stars, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Yerkes Observatory (Chicago), [>]
Yu, Jer: and evolution of universe, [>]–[>], [>]
Zel’dovich, Yakov: and “Big Bang” theory, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and black holes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and cosmological constant, [>], [>], [>]
and general relativity, [>]–[>]
and large-scale structure theory, [>]
and nuclear physics, [>]
and Sakharov, [>], [>]
Zermelo, Ernst, [>]
Zwicky, Fritz, [>]
and galaxies, [>]
About the Author
PEDRO G. FERREIRA is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford. An expert in cosmology, the early universe, and general relativity, he writes frequently for trade and academic science publications and comments on television and radio. He lives in Oxford, England.