From Eternity to Here (85 page)
INDEX
Abbott, Edwin A.
acceleration
and Boltzmann brains
and expansion of the universe
and relativity
and special relativity
and time travel
and velocity
and wormholes
Achatz, Grant
Acta Mathematica
Aeneid
(Virgil)
aether
Aguirre, Anthony
À la recherche du temps perdu
(Proust)
Albert, David
Albrecht, Andreas
algorithmic complexity
“All You Zombies” (Heinlein)
Alpher, Ralph
Amis, Martin
anisotropies
Annalen der Physik
Annie Hall
(1977)
anthropic principle
and arrow of time
and Boltzmann brains
and the current state of the universe
and multiverse hypothesis
and natural theology
and recurrence
anti-de Sitter space
antiparticles
antiquarks
Arcadia
(Stoppard)
Aristotle
Arroway, Ellie (fictional character)
arrow of time
and baby universes
and the Big Bang
and black holes
and bouncing-universe cosmology
and checkerboard world exercise
and Chronology Protection Conjecture
and de Sitter space
and the early universe
and elementary particles
and entropy
and evolution of space of states
familiarity of
and free will
and gas distribution
and Gold cosmology
and information
and initial conditions of the universe
and irreversibility
and location in space
and many-worlds interpretation
and memory
and multiverse model
nonstandard versions
and the Past Hypothesis
and perception of the world
and possibilism
and Principle of Indifference
and quantum mechanics
and recurrence problem
and remembering the future
and spacetime
and state of physical systems
and Steady State cosmology
and symmetry
and temporal chauvinism
time contrasted with space
and wave functions
and white holes
artificial gravity
asymmetry of time
and the Big Bang
and cause and effect
and entropy
and inflationary cosmology
and parity violation
and possibilism
and white holes
atomic clocks
atomic nuclei
atomic theory
autonomous evolution of the universe
Avicenna
Avogadro’s Number
baby universes
background radiation.
See
cosmic microwave background radiation
background time
Back to the Future
(1985)
Baker, Nicholson
Banks, Tom
Bekenstein, Jacob
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
Bell, John
Bennett, Charles
Berlioz, Hector
Bernoulli, Daniel
Big Bang
and the arrow of time
and black holes
and bouncing-universe cosmology
and bubbles of true vacuum
and the current state of the universe
and definition of the universe
and definition of time
and de Sitter space
and directionality of time
and entropy
and the horizon problem
and inflationary cosmology
and initial conditions of the universe
and light cones
and lumpiness of the universe
and microwave background radiation
and natural theology
and the observable universe
problems with
and recurrence theorem
and singularity hypothesis
speculative theories
time before
time since
and time symmetry
and uniformity
uses for term
Big Crunch
and black holes
and cosmological constant
debate on
and de Sitter space
and empty space
and lumpiness of the universe
and time asymmetry
and time reversibility
and time symmetry
biophysics
biosphere and biological processes
blackbody radiation
black holes.
See also
event horizons; singularities
and arrow of time
and baby universes model
and closed timelike curves
and entropy
evaporation of
and growth of structure
and Hawking radiation
and holographic principle
and information
and Laplace
and particle accelerators
and quantum tunneling
and quasars
and the real world
and redshift
and spacetime
and string theory
thermodynamic analogy
and uncertainty principle
uniformity of
The Black Hole Wars
(Susskind)
block time/block universe perspective
Bohr, Niels
Boltzmann, Emma
Boltzmann, Ludwig
and anthropic principle
and arrow of time
and atomic theory
and black holes
death
and de Sitter space
and entropy
and the
H
-Theorem
and initial conditions of the universe
and kinetic theory
and Loschmidt’s reversibility objection
and Past Hypothesis
and Principle of Indifference
and recurrence theorem
and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
and statistical mechanics
Boltzmann brains
Boltzmann-Lucretius scenario
Bondi, Hermann
boost.
bosons
bouncing-universe cosmology
boundary conditions
and cause and effect
described
and initial conditions of the universe
and irreversibility
and Maxwell’s Demon
and recurrence theorem
and time symmetry
Bousso, Raphael
Brahe, Tycho
branes
Brillouinéon
brown dwarfs
Brownian motion
Bruno, Giordano
bubbles of vacuum
Buddhism
Bureau of Longitude
Callender, Craig
Callisto
caloric
Calvin, John
Calvino, Italo
Carnot, Lazare
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
Carrey, Jim
Carroll, Lewis
cause and effect
celestial mechanics
cellular automata
CERN
C-field
Chandrasekhar Limit
chaotic dynamics
The Character of Physical Law
(Feynman)
charge
charge conjugation
checkerboard world exercise
and arrow of time
background of
and conservation of information
and Hawking radiation
and holographic principle
and information loss
and interaction effects
and irreversibility
and Principle of Indifference
and symmetry
and testing hypotheses
chemistry
Chen, Jennifer
choice
Chronology Protection Conjecture
circles in time.
See
closed timelike curves (CTCs)
circular-time universe
classical mechanics
and anthropic principle
and black holes
and conservation of energy
and creation of the universe
and elementary particles
and Laplace
and light cones
and loops in time
and maximizing entropy
and Michelson-Morley experiment
and momentum
and observation
and prediction
and quantum wave functions
and recurrence theorem
and relativity
and spacetime
and state of physical systems
and three-body problems
and time reversal
and time travel
Clausius, Rudolf
and definition of life
and empiricism
and entropy
and kinetic theory
and Maxwell’s Demon
and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
and statistical mechanics
and vacuum energy
clinamen (the swerve)
clocks
and curvature of spacetime
and definition of time
and manipulating time
and relativity
and special relativity
and time travel
closed systems
and autonomous evolution of the universe
and comoving patch of space
and creationism
and determinism
and entropy
and Gott time machines
and inflationary cosmology
and Maxwell’s Demon
and phenomenological thermodynamics
and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
and sliced spacetime
and the universe
and wormholes
closed timelike curves (CTCs)
and black holes
and Chronology Protection Conjecture
and circular-time universe
difficulties of
and Flatland
and “gate into yesterday” exercise
and paradoxes
and science fiction86
and wormholes
c oarse-graining
cognitive instability
coincidence problem
collapsing universe.
See
contracting universe
collision number hypothesis
comoving patch of space
and autonomous evolution of the universe
and bouncing-universe cosmology
and evolution of entropy
and inflationary cosmology
and maximizing entropy
and observable universe
and Planck length
compact notation
complexity
complex numbers
conceptions of time
Confessions
(St. Augustine)
consciousness
conservation of energy
Contact
(Sagan)
continuity108
contracting universe .
See also
Big Crunch; bouncing-universe cosmology
contraction of space
coordinate systems
Copenhagen interpretation n
Copernican Principle
cosmic microwave background radiation
and the Big Bang
and de Sitter space
discovery of
and the early universe
and fluctuations
and Hawking radiation
and the horizon problem
and inflationary cosmology
and reconstruction of the past
and relativity
cosmic no-hair theorem
cosmic strings
cosmological constant
cosmological horizon
“Cosmological Principle,”
cosmology.
See also specific models
CPLEAR experiment
CPT
Theorem
creationism
Crick, Francis
Cronin, James
culture of the sciences
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Fitzgerald)
Curtis, Heber
curvature of space
curvature of spacetime.
See also
general relativity
and black holes
and conservation of information
and de Sitter space
and expansion of the universe
and flat space
and Gott time machines
and inflationary cosmology
and multiverse model
and relativity
and tensors
and time before Big Bang
and time dilation
and time travel
and uncertainty principle
and wormholes
Cutler, Curt
cyclic universe.
See also
bouncing-universe cosmology, recurrence
dark energy
and acceleration of the universe
amount of
described
and entropy
and expansion of the universe
and inflationary cosmology
and size of universe
and special relativity
and supernovae
dark matter
dark super-energy
Darwin, Charles
Darwinian selection
dead stars
decoherence
definition of time
demarcation problem
Democritus
Deser, Stanley
de Sitter, Willem
de Sitter space
and baby universes model
and the current state of the universe
described
and entropy of multiverse
and eternal inflation
and event horizons
and irreversibility
and multiverse model
and thermal fluctuation
and true vacuum
and vacuum energy
determinism
and Buddhism
and chaotic dynamics
and closed timelike curves
and Laplace’s Demon
and laws of physics
and prediction
and the Schrödinger’s equation
DeWitt, Bryce
Dicke, Robert
dimensions
directionality.
See
arrow of time
disorder.
See also
entropy
distance
“Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant” (Dyson, Kleban, and Susskind)
DNA
“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy Content?” (Einstein)
“doomsday argument,”
Doppler effect
Doroshkevich, A. G.
double-slit experiment
down quarks
Dumb and Dumber
(1994)
duration
Dyson, Lisa
early universe.
See also
Big Bang
and the arrow of time
and background radiation
and entropy
and inflationary cosmology
lumpiness of
and smoothness
Eddington, Arthur
efficiency
eigenstate
Einstein, Albert
and black holes
on Brownian motion
and the cosmological constant
and curvature of spacetime