by John Gribbin
Sunday Times, 226, 290, 291
superdensity, 93, 96, 215, 249–250
supergravity, 303–304, 380
Super-Horizon, 330
Superspace and Supergravity, 239–240, 261
superstring theory, 305–306, 309
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 267
T
Tartar, Dick, 22
Taylor, John G., 154, 178
Tears for Fears, 260
Telegraph, 241
Teresa, Mother, 224
Thatcher, Margaret, 190, 224
Theory of Everything, The, 413–417
theory of relativity
expanding universe and, 31, 40–41, 46, 93–96
pulsars and, 126–128, 134–136
quantum mechanics and, 26, 152, 204–212, 274, 291
quantum physics and, 27, 177–178, 309
quantum theory and, 26–27, 164, 206–213, 301–309
thermodynamics, 166–167, 172–173, 176
Thin Blue Line, The, 331–332
Thomson, Caroline, 330
Thorne, Kip, 156, 162–163, 180–182, 346–352, 356–357, 407
time and space, 35–40, 214–215, 350. See also spacetime
time loop, 353–356
time machine, 215, 346–358
Time magazine, 287
time travel, 345–358
time warp, 35
Times, 241, 292, 366
trajectories, 210, 213–214, 353, 384–385
Travelling to Infinity, 413
Turner, Mike, 314–315, 326, 328
Tury, Wendy, 289
Tutu, Desmond, 273, 399
20/20, 320
U
Universe in a Nutshell, The, 362, 402
V
vacuum energies, 382–383
Varsity, 374
velocities, 32–35
Very Early Universe, The, 261
Vivaldi, Antonio, 322
W
Wagner, Richard, 72, 111, 275, 322, 360, 364
Wagoner, Robert, 133, 136
Warner, Nick, 190
wave-particle duality, 42–43, 208–209
“wavicles,” 43–44
Weinberg, Steven, 95, 131
Wheeler, John Archibald, 87, 128, 136, 164–165
white dwarfs, 87–89, 127, 161
Who’s Who, 205
Wilde, George, 106
Wilde, Jane, 70, 74, 81–82, 102–106. See also Hawking, Jane
Wiles, Andre John, 395
Wilkinson, Jonny, 395
Wilson, Harold, 143
Wilson, Robert, 130
Woltosz, Walt, 279
Wood-Smith, Nigel, 24
Woolley, Richard, 140
wormholes, 347–358
Wyndham, John, 11
X
X-ray astronomy, 160–162, 166
Y
Young’s experiment, 207–209
Yurtsever, Ulvi, 350
Z
Zel’dovich, Yakov Boris, 151, 155–156, 172
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 290
zero energy, 173, 250
zero volume, 90, 136, 206–207, 212
zero-gravity flight, 397–398, 417
Zuckerman, Al, 265–267, 270–271, 281–284, 316, 329
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MICHAEL WHITE has the unique privilege of having been in three Top 10 charts—as a non-fiction writer, a novelist, and a pop musician. Formerly a member of the eighties band the Thompson Twins, he graduated from King’s College, University of London and during the nineties worked as a journalist. He has since published thirty-nine books in thirty-eight languages including the award-winning Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer and Rivals, short-listed for the 2002 Aventis Prize. His first hit novel, Equinox, was translated into thirty-five languages and became a UK Top 10 bestseller. Subsequent novels include The Medici Secret, The Borgia Ring, The Art of Murder, and The Kennedy Conspiracy.
Most recently, Michael has co-authored a thriller with James Patterson, Private Down Under.
He is currently developing a TV series called The Venetian Detective with Lion TV in London and has his own production company, White Diamond.
For more information, visit: www.michaelwhite.com.au
DR. JOHN GRIBBIN trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. He has worked for the science journal Nature and the magazine New Scientist, and has contributed articles on science topics to the Times, the Guardian, and the Independent. He has received awards for his writing in both Britain and the United States and is currently a visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. John Gribbin’s books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, In Search of the Big Bang, In Search of the Edge of Time, In Search of Superstrings (aka The Search for Superstrings), Einstein: A Life in Science (with Michael White), Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (with Mary Gribbin), Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution (with Mary Gribbin), Science: A History, and Before the Big Bang. His latest is Computing with Quantum Cats. John Gribbin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He is married with two sons and lives in East Sussex.
OTHER BOOKS BY MICHAEL WHITE INCLUDE
Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers: Tales of Bitter Rivalry that Fueled the Advancement
of Science and Technology
Darwin: A Life in Science (with John Gribbin)
Einstein: A Life in Science (with John Gribbin)
Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
Leonardo: The First Scientist
Life Out There: The Truth of—and Search for—Extraterrestrial Life
Thompson Twin: An 80’s Memoir
Tolkein: A Biography
The Pope and the Heretic: A True Story of Courage and Murder at the Hands of the Inquisition
Weird Science: An Expert Explains Ghosts, Voodoo, the UFO Conspiracy, and Other Paranormal Phenomena
OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN GRIBBIN INCLUDE
Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science
The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
A Brief History of Science
The Case of the Missing Neutrinos: And Other Curious Phenomena of the Universe
Companion to the Cosmos
Empire of the Sun: Planets and Moons of the Solar System (with Simon Goodwin)
Eyewitness: Time & Space (with Mary Gribbin)
Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs, and Humankind (with Mary Gribbin)
Hyperspace: The Universe and Its Mysteries
In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
In Search of the Big Bang: The Life and Death of the Universe
In Search of the Double Helix
In Search of the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes
In the Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe
Origins: Our Place in Hubble’s Universe (with Simon Goodwin)
Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics
Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (with Mary Gribbin)
Schrödinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries
The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
Stardust: Supernovae and Life: The Cosmic Connection (with Mary Gribbin)
XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find It (with Simon Goodwin)
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