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Brin, David, 253
Broglie, Louis de, 43
Bruce, Lisa, 413, 416
Bruno, Giordano, 198
bubble universes, 249–251, 254–257, 380
C
Calder, Nigel, 204
Cambridge Evening News, 157, 277
Campbell, Anne, 373
Campbell, Joseph, 201
Carr, Bernard, 185, 257
Carrey, Jim, 396
Carter, Brandon, 75, 83, 106–107, 110, 145, 169
Castro, Fidel, 47, 49
CERN machine, 35–36, 388
Chandler, Raymond, 47
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 221
chaotic inflation, 246
Chapman, Mark, 238
Charles, Prince, 241, 396
chronology-protection conjecture, 352, 355, 358
Church, Michael, 11, 17, 55, 69
Churchill, Winston, 6
Civil Rights Bill, 368
“classical” cosmology, 25–46
“classical” physics, 26–27, 223, 300–302, 384
Cleese, John, 224
Cleghorn, Bill, 11
Clinton, Bill, 374
“clockwork universe,” 29–30, 45
Close, Frank, 386
Cluskey, Leo, 408–409
Cole, Lily, 407
“collapsar,” 88, 90, 128
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 145, 169
“compactification,” 306–308
Companion to A Brief History of Time, The, 361
constant velocity, 34
“cosmic egg,” 93–96
cosmology
anthropic cosmology, 254–255, 308, 380–385
awareness of, 264, 269
Big Bang cosmology, 131, 134
breakthroughs in, 4
classical cosmology, 25–46
future of, 336, 378
global cosmology, 314–315
inflationary cosmology, 243
modern cosmology, 35, 236–237
quantum cosmology, 41, 253
studies in, 63, 67, 101, 131, 141, 149–150, 180
successes in, 194
theoretical cosmology, 26–27
cosmology group, 314–315
Creation of the Universe, The, 128
critical radius, 90
Croasdell, Judith, 394
Cumberbach, Benedict, 394
Cygnus X-1, 162–163, 166
D
Daily Mail, 289, 391
Daily Mirror, 393
Davies, Paul, 178, 272
Dawkins, Richard, 380
dead stars, 87–91, 175
Desert Island Discs, 362
determinism, 29–30, 44–45, 353
Diamandis, Peter, 398
Diana, Princess, 241
Dicke, Robert, 129–130
Dilke, Fischer, 142
Dirac, Paul, 310
Disabled Persons Act, 226
Division Bell, The, 368
Dix, Norman, 59
Donovan, Bob, 110
Dow, Graham, 16
E
Eddington, Arthur, 261
Efstathiou, George, 188–189
Einstein, Albert, 4, 26–27, 31, 34–43, 67, 86–88, 93–98, 114, 119, 122–125, 142, 156, 180, 195, 200, 203, 207, 222–224, 254, 271–273, 297, 300, 305, 331–332, 347–350, 355–357, 365, 368–370, 387, 407
Einstein-Rosen bridge, 347–350
electromagnetic waves, 31–33, 207
“electroweak,” 301
Elizabeth II, Queen, 4, 241
Ellis, George, 75, 83, 111–112, 118, 149–150
Englert, François, 388
expanding universe
acceleration of, 382
baby universes and, 346–347
Big Bang and, 135, 214–215, 246–248
black holes and, 346–347
bubble universes and, 249–251, 258
redshift and, 124–126
relativity theory and, 31, 40–41, 46, 93–96
theories on, 31, 40–41, 93–96
extrasensory perception (ESP), 18
F
Fahri, Edward, 250–253
false vacuum, 245–254, 258, 388
Faraday, Michael, 403
Feaver, Canon, 19
Ferguson, Kitty, 271
fermions, 386
Ferneyhaugh, Roger, 11, 13
Feynman, Richard, 181–182, 207, 209, 212–213, 267, 372, 383–384, 404, 410
First Three Minutes, The, 95, 131
Flatland, 381
Fletcher, Christopher, 22
Ford, Harrison, 314
Fowler, Willy, 132–133, 136
free will, 29–30, 45–46, 353
Freedman, Daniel, 265
Freedman, Gordon, 329–332, 336
G
Galfard, Christophe, 405
Galilei, Galileo, 1, 6, 120, 198, 212, 222–223, 237, 297
Gamow, George, 128
Gandhi, Indira, 47, 273
Gates, Bill, 373
Gell-Mann, Murray, 147
General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, 222
Gibbons, Gary, 231, 247, 334
Glass, Philip, 336
God, 194–200, 379–386, 402–403
“God particle,” 386
Golding, William, 11
Good Housekeeping, 394
Gore, Al, 374
Gott, Richard, 248
Graham, Billy, 16
Grand Design, The, 385, 402, 404
Grand Unified Theories (GUTs), 302
“granny paradox,” 352–354
gravitinos, 303–304
gravitons, 303–306
gravity, law of, 27–31, 35–39, 196, 308
gravity, quantum theory of, 299–306, 358
Green, Michael, 306, 400
Greenfield, Susan, 380, 403
Guth, Alan, 217–218, 245, 250–253
Guzzardi, Peter, 264–274, 278, 280–287, 316, 333
H
Handel, George, 322
Hartle, James, 212
Hawking, 394
Hawking, Edward, 15
Hawking, Elaine, 374–376, 391–394. See also Mason, Elaine
Hawking, Frank, 6–8, 14–15, 21–22, 48–49, 74, 106, 417
Hawking, Isobel, 6–7, 14–16, 106, 293–294, 318, 334, 376, 417
Hawking, Jane, 105–111, 139, 148, 182–187, 190–201, 224–225, 236, 242, 276–279, 337–343, 360, 375–376, 392–395, 413–416. See also Wilde, Jane
Hawking, Lucy, 143, 165, 183, 190, 236, 242, 340, 375–376, 395, 398, 404–406
Hawking, Mary, 15, 74, 417
Hawking, Philippa, 15, 417
Hawking, Robert, 190, 242, 340, 376, 404
Hawking, Stephen
achievements of, 4–5
alleged abuse of, 391–393
awards for, 191, 204–205, 220–222, 225, 241–242, 319–322, 337–338, 399–400
baby universes and, 244–259
Big Bang and, 86–101
birth of, 6–7
black holes and, 86–101, 159–178
breakthrough years of, 138–158
childhood of, 6–15
children of, 115, 143, 165, 183, 190, 224, 340, 404–406
college years of, 47–85
divorce of, 360, 394
doctoral thesis of, 78–85
early years of, 6–24
education of, 8–24, 47–63, 66–85
fame of, 179–205, 313–344
as global icon, 390–419
illness of, 67–74, 80–81, 103, 111–114, 224–226, 275–278, 398–399
marriage of, 105–111, 374–375
Multiverse and, 379–389
paralysis of, 4, 71, 189–190, 195, 203, 205, 367, 411
quantum theory and, 206–213
as science celebrity, 220–243
singular solutions and, 122–137
as superstar, 359–378
teenage years of, 20–24
/> time travel and, 345–358
tracheostomy operation on, 276–278, 280, 399, 416
views on disabilities, 224–229
views on “end” of physics, 298–312
views on political issues, 227–230
views on religion, 16–18, 194–200, 379–386, 402–403
work routine of, 233–235
Hawking, Timothy, 190, 224, 236, 242, 280, 290, 335, 339–343, 376, 392–395, 404
“Hawking factor,” 418
Hawking Radiation, 155–157, 175–177, 221, 246–248, 252, 356–358
Heath, Edward, 143
Heisenberg, Werner, 44
Hellyer-Jones, Jonathan, 376, 395, 414, 417
Hertog, Thomas, 384
Herts Advertiser, 23
Hewish, Antony, 221
Hickman, David, 330, 332–333, 335–336
Higgs, Peter, 387–388
Higgs Boson, 386–388
Higgs field, 386–389
Hodgkin, Alan, 157
Holly, Buddy, 47
Horizon, 241, 330
Hoyle, Fred, 63, 68, 77–80, 132–133, 136, 139, 168, 261
Hubble, Edwin, 40
Huffington Post, The, 411
Huxley, Aldous, 11
Huxley, Julian, 5
I
Illustrated Brief History of Time, The, 362
Independent magazine, 292
infinite density, 90–93, 97, 122–123, 206–207, 212
Infinity Puzzle, The, 386
inflation theory, 217–218, 246
inverse-square law, 28, 31, 39, 381
Israel, Werner, 164, 222
J
Jackson, Michael, 291
Jacob, Maurice, 276
Jaded, 405
Jenkins, Simon, 291, 295
Joad, Cyril, 5
John Paul II, Pope, 237–239
John XXIII, Pope, 237
Jones, Felicity, 413, 415–416
K
Kelvin, Lord, 144
Kennedy, John F., 66
Key to the Universe, 203–204
Kim, Sung-Won, 356–357
King, Basil, 11, 22
King, Billie Jean, 399
Kolb, Edward, 314–315
L
Laflamme, Raymond, 275
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 386–387
Large Scale Structure of Spacetime, The, 149–151, 205, 239–240
law of gravity, 27–29, 196, 308
Lawrence, D. H., 117
Leibniz, Gottfried, 326, 329
Leigh, Nigel, 409
Lennon, John, 238
Levin, Bernard, 292, 294
Lewis, C. S., 11
light, speed of, 31–37, 43, 98, 254, 348, 356, 387
light beams, 38–42, 207, 247, 355
Linde, Andrei, 218, 245, 248, 253, 297, 325–327
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, 201
Lou Gehrig’s disease, 71. See also amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
LUCE (Logical Uniselector Computing Engine), 22–24
Lynden-Bell, Donald, 139
Lynn, Vera, 5
M
MacLaine, Shirley, 3–4
Macmillan, Harold, 55
Maddox, John, 290
Mahler, Gustav, 11, 111
Marsh, James, 413
Marsh, William Thomas, 19
Masey, Sue, 391, 393
Mason, David, 316, 339, 342, 374–376
Mason, Elaine, 339, 342, 374–376, 391–395, 414, 416. See also Hawking, Elaine
mass and energy, 42, 97–98, 248–250
Master of the Universe, 320, 330, 343
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 29
Maupassant, Guy de, 11
Maxwell, James Clerk, 31–34, 36, 75, 299–300, 308–309
McCarten, Anthony, 413
McClenahan, John, 11, 15, 21–22, 55, 69, 74
McKellen, Ian, 391
meta-universe, 246. See also Multiverse
Milky Way Galaxy, 40–41, 92, 124–127, 160
Millikan, Robert, 180
Mitton, Simon, 139–142, 150–151, 222, 239–240, 260–264, 284
Mlodinow, Leonard, 402, 404
momentum, 42–45
Monroe, Marilyn, 66, 319, 334–335, 342, 369
moon landing, 118
Morris, Errol, 331–337, 361
Morris, Michael, 350
motor neuron disease, 71–72, 293–294, 366, 379, 411. See also amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Mountbatten, Lord, 224
moving objects, 28–37
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 11, 146
M-theory, 380–385, 403
Multiverse, 246, 248, 257, 379–389
Music to Move the Stars, 376, 413
N
Narlikar, Jayant, 78–80
Nature, 154, 177–178, 289, 290
Needham, Joseph, 104–105
neurological disease, 71–72
neutron stars, 26–27, 89, 92, 127–128, 161–162, 175
New York Times, 241, 264, 267
News of the World, 333
Newsweek, 241, 299
Newton, Isaac, 26–31, 34–39, 44–45, 105, 120, 196, 222–223, 297–299, 305–306, 309, 326, 329, 368–370, 400
Newtonian physics, 26, 29, 34–37, 40, 45, 299–300
Nobel, Alfred, 221
Novikov, Igor, 346, 351, 352
nuclear reactions, 87, 98–99
nuclear weapons, 230, 373
nucleosynthesis, 100, 132–133
O
Oasis, 374
Obama, Barack, 399
Observatory magazine, 346
occult interests, 18
OK Computer, 368
Ono, Yoko, 238
Overbye, Dennis, 144, 201–202, 232
P
Page, Don, 182, 185–186, 199, 225, 316, 336
Parsons, Jim, 396
particle accelerators, 35–36, 174, 301
“path integral” approach, 207–210, 214
Penrose, Roger, 82–84, 104, 119–122, 134–136, 141, 144, 149, 153–155, 164–166, 171–172, 235–236, 321, 383
Penzias, Arno, 130
photoelectric effect, 42
Physical Review, 316, 357, 384
Physical Review Letters, 351
physics, “end” of, 298–312
Physics Today, 328
Physics World, 370
Picasso, Pablo, 291
Pink Floyd, 368
Planck, Max, 43–44
Planck’s constant, 43–45, 173, 211, 254, 347–348
Poitier, Sidney, 399
Polchinski, Joe, 352
political issues, 227–230
Popper, Karl, 120–121
Priestley, J. B., 5
“primeval atom,” 93–96, 237
Principia, 29
Pryke, Colonel, 19, 20
pulsars, 26–27, 126–128, 134–136
Purcell, Henry, 322
Q
quantum chromodynamics (QCD), 301–304
quantum electrodynamics (QED), 300–301
quantum fluctuations, 252–253, 358, 382
quantum mechanics
equations of, 44–45
M-theory and, 380–385
relativity theory and, 26, 152, 204–212, 274, 291
sum-over-histories and, 354
quantum physics
gravity and, 35
inflation theory and, 217–218
relativity theory and, 27, 177–178, 309
uncertainty principle of, 172
workings of, 45–46, 309, 356–357
quantum theory
developing, 41
particles and, 174–175
principle of, 89, 211–213, 381–382
relativity theory and, 26–27, 164, 206–213, 301–309
quantum uncertainty, 172–174, 251, 258, 356
quarks, 301–303, 309, 386
quasars, 123–127, 134, 255
R
radio no
ise, 123, 126–127
radio “stars,” 123–124
radio waves, 31–32, 123, 129
Rayfield, Lee, 403
Reagan, Ronald, 238, 273
Redmayne, Eddie, 413–417
redshifts, 124–126, 129
Rees, Martin, 75, 83, 110, 153, 255–257, 299, 402, 407
relativity theory, 26–27. See also theory of relativity
religious views, 16–18, 30, 194–200, 379–386, 402–403
Rolling Stones, 118
Rosen, Nathan, 347
Run for Your Life, 405
Russell, Bertrand, 11, 143, 288
Ryle, Martin, 221
S
Sadat, Anwar, 240
Sagan, Carl, 348, 350
Sandage, Allan, 123
Sandars, Patrick, 57
Schaefer, Fritz, 371–372
Scherk, Joël, 304
Schmidt, Maarten, 123, 124
Schramm, David, 148, 314–315, 341–342
Schramm, Judy, 148
Schwarz, John, 304
Schwarzschild horizon, 123
Schwarzschild radius, 90–91
Sciama, Dennis, 68–69, 72–76, 80–85, 103–104, 119, 149, 153–158, 236, 266, 313–314, 334
Sciama, Lydia, 236
Scientific American, 172
Shakeshaft, John, 150
Shakespeare, William, 105, 200, 295
Siegfried Idyll, 360
Simpsons, The, 396
singularity theory
Big Bang and, 160
black holes and, 82–85, 90–94, 111, 134–137, 159–168
infinite density and, 90–94, 122–123, 206
M-theory and, 383
Smith, Alex Mackenzie, 405
socio-political issues, 227–230
solar masses, 89–91, 125–126, 161–162
space and time, 35–40, 214–215, 350. See also spacetime
space travel, 350, 397–398, 401, 417
space warp, 35
spacetime
baby universes and, 252
bent spacetime, 39–40, 86–87, 92, 96
black holes and, 83, 86–96, 135–136, 144, 164–166, 170, 253
dimensions of, 245, 346, 350, 353
particles through, 209, 213–215
theory of, 37–40, 347–351
tunnel through, 347–348, 353, 356
Speak to Me, 367
spectrum, 123–124, 160, 285
speed of light, 31–37, 43, 98, 254, 348, 356, 387
Spencer, Lady Diana, 241
Spielberg, Steven, 331, 354
Spufford, Bridget, 323
Spufford, Margaret, 323
Star Trek: The Next Generation, 368, 404
Starobinsky, Alex, 172, 245
static universe, 31, 40–41, 93
Status Quo, 318–319
Steinhardt, Paul, 218, 325–329
Stephen Hawking: A Quest for the Theory of Everything, 271
Stephen Hawking’s Universe, 365
string theory, 303–306, 309
Stringfellow, Peter, 410–411
“sum-over-histories” approach, 207–214, 257–258, 354, 383–384
Sunday Mirror, 289