Authors: Michio Kaku,Robert O'Keefe
Duchamp, Marcel, 22
Dyson, Freeman, 258, 280–281, 285
Ehrenfest, Paul, 339n.11
Einstein, Albert, 6, 10, 13, 15, 79, 80–107, 112–113, 133, 138, 142, 154, 157, 177, 201, 233, 243–246, 266, 303, 314, 327–328, 342nn.7, 13
Einstein-Rosen bridge, 224–226
Electromagnetic interactions, 13, 101, 122, 125, 338n.6
Ellis, John, 189, 326
Entropy death, 304–305
Equivalence principle, 89
Erikson, Erik, 209
Escape velocity, 223
Euclidean geometry, 33, 38
Everett, Hugh, 262
Family problem, 127, 206
Faraday, Michael, 25, 79, 100–101, 168, 189
Faraday’s Law, 35
Feinberg, Gerald, 28, 307–308
Fermi, Enrico, 118, 144
Fermions, 144
Ferrara, Sergio, 145
Feynman, Richard, 130, 259
Feynman diagrams, 119–120, 138–139, 166, 325
Field theory, 23, 25, 39, 79, 93–94, 156, 166–168
Flatland, 46–48, 70–74, 106, 180–181, 340n.l0
Freedman, Daniel, 145
Freund, Peter, 11–12, 104–105, 345n.9
Gamow, George, 197–198, 238
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 32, 62, 336n.4
Geller, Uri, 53
Gell-Mann, Murray, 179
General relativity, 91–95, 100–101, 138–150, 251
Generation problem, 127–128, 206
Georgi, Howard, 140
Gladsone, William, 25
Glashow, Sheldon, 121, 179
Gluons, 15, 122–123
God, 191–193, 330–332
cosmological proof of, 192–194
ontological proof of, 193–194
teleological proof of, 192–194
Gödel, Kurt, 240, 242–243
Goldsmith, Donald, 283
Grand Unified Theories (GUTs), 131–134, 143, 157, 159, 206, 213, 267, 305, 319, 325, 347n.4
Gravitino, 145, 183
Graviton, 138–139, 154, 183
Gravity, 14–15, 90–93, 95, 100–101, 126, 138–139, 146–148, 154, 183, 253, 335n.4
Green, Michael, 16, 155, 169
Gross, David, 157, 178, 206, 315–316
Grossman, Marcel, 93
Guth, Alan, 20, 26, 201, 259
Half-life, 134
Hardy, Godfrey, 174–175
Hartle, James, 253
Harvey, Jeffrey, 157, 347n.3
Hawking, Stephen, 147, 235, 252–254, 267, 334
Heinlein, Robert, 77, 236–237
Heisenberg, Werner, 111, 136, 166, 260, 324
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 114, 187
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 22, 62
Hernquist, Lars, 299
Heterotic string, 158–159, 345n.l0
Higgs boson, 127, 183
Hinton, Charles, 54, 68–79, 84, 88
Hinton’s cubes, 69–70
Holism, 318–321
Horowitz, Paul, 282
Hubble, Edwin, 196
Hubble’s Law, 196
Hume, David, 181
Huxley, Thomas H., 330
Hypercube, 70, 77–78
Hyperdoughnut, 96–97
Hypersphere, 95, 342n.10
Inflation, 201
James, William, 22
Jeans, Sir James, 304
Johnson, Lyndon, 164, 182
Kaluza, Theodr, 99–100, 105–107, 338n.6, 343n.l3
Kaluza-Klein theory, vii, 8, 16, 99–103, 140–144, 146, 154–155, 169, 207, 313, 322, 335n.l, 345n.9
Kardashev, Nikolai, 277
Kepler, Johannes, 334
Kerr, Roy, 226
Kikkawa, Keiji, 162, 166, 207
Klein, Oskar, 106–107, 144, 207
Lawrence, Ernest, 184
Lenard, Philip, 314
Lenin, Vladimir, 22, 67–68, 87, 340n.6
Leonardo da Vinci, 64
Leptons, 123, 127, 142, 143, 146, 183
Littlewood, John, 175
Lobachevski, Nikolaus I., 337n.4
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 53
Lovelace, Claude, 168
Mach, Ernst, 67
Mach’s principle, 91, 242
Mandel, Heinrich, 343n. 13
Mandelstam, Stanley, 165
Many-worlds theory, 262
Marsden, Brian, 294
Martinec, Emil, 157
Marx, Karl, 32
Maxwell, James Clerk, xi, 7, 86, 101, 189, 314
Maxwell’s equations, 101–103, 123, 130, 137, 142, 143, 276, 342n.4, 345n. 13
McDonald, George, 62
McGovern, George, 152
Michel, Helen, 296
Michell, John, 223
Microwave background, 197–200
Mie, Gustav, 343n. 13
Mills, R. L., 26, 118
Missing mass, 304
Möbius, August, 51
Möbius strip, 60–61, 96
Modular functions, 172–173, 176–177
More, Henry, 21
Morris, Michael, 245
Muller, Richard, 297
Multiply connected spaces, 18
Muon, 128
Nambu, Yoichiro, 161
Nanopoulous, D. V., 155
Nappi, Chiara, 151
Nemesis theory, 296
Neutrino, 125, 128, 187–188
Neutron star, 220–221, 348n.1
Newman, Ezra, 243
Newton, Isaac, xi, 85, 115, 147, 242, 329, 339n.11
Newton’s constant, 335n.4
Non-Euclidean geometry, 34–36
Nonrenormalizable theory, 126, 150
Norstrom, Gunnar, 104, 343n. 13
NUT solution, 244
Ontological proof of God, 193–194
Oort cloud, 297
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 112
Orbifolds, 202–204, 206, 211, 347nn.3, 4
Ostriker, Jeremiah P., 199
Ouspensky, P. D., 65
Owen, Tobius, 283
Pagels, Heinz, 9, 140, 259, 289, 333
Pauli, Wolfgang, 106–107, 137, 187
Pauli exclusion principle, 348n.1
Penzias, Arno, 197
Perturbation theory, 119
Phase transition, 210–214
Photon, 113
Piaget, Jean, 210
Picasso, Pablo, 65
Planck, Max, 88
Planck energy, 107, 138, 177, 185, 269
Planck length, 16, 269, 335n. 1
Planck’s constant, 113, 335n. 1
Poincaré, Henri, 130, 327
Proton decay, 133–134
Proust, Marcel, 22
Ptolemy, 34
Pulsar, 220
Pythagorean Theorem, 37, 338n.7
Quanta, 113
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), 122
Quantum electrodynamics (QED), 123
Quantum theory, 112–115
Quarks, 15, 122–123, 125, 142, 143, 183, 213
bottom quark, 128
charmed quark, 128
colored quarks, 122, 128
flavored quarks, 122, 128
strange quark, 128
super quarks, 183
top quark, 128
Rabi, Isidor I., xii, 333
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 172–177
Ramanujan function, 346n. 13
Raup, David, 297
Red giant, 218
Red shift, 196
Reductionism, 318–321
Reissner-Nordstrom solution, 225
Resonance, 141, 153
Riemann, Georg Bernhard, 22–23, 30–45, 62, 79, 90–91, 107, 243, 326, 329, 336nn.2, 4, 337n.6, 343n.l3
Riemann’s metric tensor, 39–41, 79, 93, 101, 143–144, 146, 147, 148, 338n.7
Rohm, Ryan, 157
Russell, Bertrand, 28, 302
Rutherford, Ernest, 131
Sagan, Carl, 246, 295, 298
Sakita, Bunji, 162
Salam, Abdus, 145,
211
Schapiro, Meyer, 65
Schell, Jonathan, 287
Scherk, Joel, 168
Schofield, A. T., 55, 340n. 1
Schrödinger, Erwin, 111
Schrödinger’s cat, 260–261
Schwarz, John, 16, 155, 157, 168–169
Schwarzschild, Karl, 164
Schwinger, Julian, 137
Scriabin, Alexander, 22
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), 283
Sepkoski, John, 297
Sheehy, Gail, 209
Silk, Joseph, 306, 350n.4
Singer, Isadore A., 327
Slade, Henry, 49, 52
Slepton, 183
S
-matrix theory, 324–326
Smoot, George, 199–200
Snow, C. P., 304
Space warp, 90–92
Sparnaay, M. J., 250
Special relativity, 82–85
Spielberg, Steven, 18
Spin, 144, 150
Standard Model, 121–127, 131–134, 137, 150, 153, 155, 170–171, 211, 267, 313, 319, 345n.9, 347n.4
Stefan-Boltzmann law, 197
Stein, Gertrude, 22
Strong interactions, 14, 114, 121, 213
Superconducting supercollider (SSC), 16, 182–185, 187, 274, 316
Supergravity, vii, 16, 144–148, 150, 183, 335n. 1, 345n. 10, 347n.4
Supernova, 220, 295
Superstrings, viii, 16, 152–183, 335n. 1, 345n. l0
Supersymmetry, 145, 183
Susskind, Leonard, 268
Suzuki, Mahiko, 160–161, 167, 325
Swift-Tuttle comet, 294
Symmetry, 86, 124–130, 209–213
Symmetry breaking, 209–213
Tamburino, Louis, 243
Taulepton, 127–128
Teleological proof of God, 192–194
Tesseract, 70–71, 77–78
Thermodynamics, second law of, 304
Thomas Aquinas, 192
Thompson, J. J., 50