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About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
(Davies), 25, 175

Ackerman, Diane, 90

Addison, Joseph, 109

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
(dir. Richter), 194

Aeschylus, 97

afterlife, 108

Albert, Stuart, 131

Alexander the Great, 36

All’s Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare), 21

Amis, Martin, 143

amphibians, 183

Andromeda galaxy, 85–86, 214

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
(Barrow and Tipler), 219, 212–14, 223, 224–25

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare), 109

Aphrodite, 19

architecture, 79–80

Aristotle, 202

Armageddon, 216

Arnold, Matthew, 25–26

artificial intelligence, 205–6

arts, time-based, 136–39.
See also specific arts;
writers

Associated Press, 64

athletes, 122

attoseconds, 53

Auden, W.H., 163

August (month), 128, 129–30

Augustine (of Hippo), Saint, 7, 113, 174

Augustus Caesar, 127–28

Avni-Babad, Dinah, 110

Aymara people, 93–94

Babylonians, 37

Back to the Future
(dir. Zemeckis), 194

bacteria, 162

Barnes, Ernest, 107–8

Barrow, John D., 212–14, 219, 223, 224–25

Batman
(dir. Burton), 79

Bede (the Venerable), Saint, 43

Beerbohm, Max, 169

Bell, Alexander Graham, 65

Bell Laboratories, 172–73

Benjamin, Walter, 10

Bernal, J. D., 219

Big Bang, 172, 173

big crunch, 220, 221, 225

black holes, 100–101, 178, 188–89, 202

and end of universe, 179, 223, 224

Blair, David, 53

body time, 130

Borges, Jorge Luis, 30

brain, 82–83, 94, 116, 123, 130–31, 136.
See also
mind; thought

Brain, Marshall, 205

bristlecone pines, 161

bullet motion, 72

Burroughs, William S., 118–19

Burton, Tim, 79

butterfly effect, 207–8

calendars, 35–36, 37, 210

Calment, Jeanne, 159

Carboniferous period, 150, 183

Caribbean, 106

Carrefour de l’opéra
(dir. Méliès), 70

cars, 195–96

Cayo Largo (Cuba), 90, 91, 104–6

Cenozoic era, 55, 184

cerebellum, 123

Cézanne, Paul, 12

Chamberlain, Neville, 200

chaos theory, 207–8

Cherenkov radiation, 100

China, 39

Christianity, 39, 108, 216

chronometer, 46

chronons, 11

Chronos, 21–22.
See also
Cronos

cinema, 77.
See also
motion pictures

cinematography, 72.
See also
motion pictures

circadian rhythms, 130

cities, 79–80

Clarke, Arthur C., 204–6

clepsydra, 38

clocks, 38, 39–41, 43–44, 50–52, 64

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(dir. Spielberg), 8

coastlines, 49–50

coelacanth, 163

computers, 72, 217–18.
See also
Internet Concorde, 78

Confessions
(Augustine), 113

conservation of information, law of, 178–79

continental drift, 157, 182

Co-ordinated Universal Time, 51

Correggio, Antonio, 127

cortex (cerebral), 123

crinoids, 149, 151, 163

Cronos, 18–20, 21.
See also
Chronos

cycles

lunar, 33, 35

retail, 210

of time, 140–42

cyclotrons, 142

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 59

Darwin, Charles, 159

dates (calendar), 95

Davenport Road (Toronto), 180–81

Davies, Paul, 25, 101, 104, 175

daylight saving time, 209

days, 36, 37

A Defence of Poetry
(Shelley), 203

Degas, Edgar, 62

Devonian period, 149–50

Dickson, William, 67

dinosaurs, 147, 148, 150

The Discovery of the Future
(Wells), 210

La divina commedia
(Dante), 94

Don Valley Brick Works, 156–57

Donne, John, 109

doomsday, 216–24

dopamine, 130

D’ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons nous?
(Gauguin), 169–70

dream time, 135–36

du Maurier, Daphne, 193

Dunstable Priory (England), 40

Dutch language, 93

Dyson, Freeman, 214–15, 221

Dyson spheres, 221–22

earth (planet), 51–52, 129

Eccles, John C., 83

Edison, Thomas, 67

Edwards, Bradley C., 205

Egypt (ancient), 36, 37–38

Einstein, Albert, 98, 99, 201, 204.
See also
relativity, theory of

and relativity, 8, 88, 103

electrons, 100

Elliott, Lang, 63

English language, 94–95

entelechy, 202–3

Erichsen, J. E., 203

Ernemann Company, 71

escapement, 40

eternity, 106–10

eurypterids, 150

Falkland Islands war, 81–83

Father Time, 22–23

femtoseconds, 52–53

Fermi, Enrico, 204

Finkelstein, David, 11

Finney, Jack, 193

Fitzgerald, Edward, 15

flywheels, 108

Follini, Stefania, 131–32

fossils, 147, 149, 150–51, 152–54, 156–57 living, 159–63

A Free Man’s Worship and Other Essays
(Russell), 20

future, 10, 89–90, 200–201, 207.
See also
predictions

The Future
(Arnold), 25–26

Future Force Warrior Project (U.S. Army), 206

Gaia, 18–19

galaxies, 85–86, 171, 214

Gamow, George, 172

Gauguin, Paul, 169–70

The Gay Science
(Nietzsche), 140–41

German language, 93

glacial ages, 184–85, 215

Glenn Gould Hereafter
(dir. Monsaingeon), 138

glyptodon, 184

Gödel, Kurt, 207

gold, 100

Gold, Thomas, 42, 143

Goldberg Variations
(Bach), 138–39

Gould, Glenn, 138–39

Goya, Francisco, 19–20

grammar, 94–95

grandmother paradox, 186

gravitational waves, 53

gravity, 9, 100–101, 189

The Great Train Robbery
(dir. Porter), 68

Greece (ancient), 36, 93

Greenwich Observatory, 46

Gregory XIII, Pope, 37

Greiner, Helen, 205

Grim Reaper, 22

The Gylfaginning
, 160, 216

Hamilton, George, 79

Hammer of the North
(Magnusson), 216

Harrison, John, 45, 46

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(Rowling), 193

Hawking, Stephen, 178, 187

Hayes, Rutherford B., 63

heat death, 220, 221, 222

Hippocrates, 136

Holocene epoch, 55

Hopi people, 94

hourglasses, 42–43

hours, 37–38, 39–43

The House on the Strand
(du Maurier), 193

Hubble, Edwin, 171–72

Hubble Space Telescope, 86

humans

lifespan, 159

as superbeings (post-human), 219, 222–23

universe and, 212–14

Huxley, Aldous, 20

Huygens, Christiaan, 43–44

ice (glacial) ages, 184–85, 215

immortality, 222–23

Infinite in All Directions
(Dyson), 214–15

infinity, 222

insects, 115

intelligence, artificial, 205–6

Internet, 7, 206

Iroquois, Lake, 180–81

Ishango bone, 35

Islam, 35

Italian language, 94

Jacobson, Theodore, 201–2

James, William, 12

Johnson, Samuel, 5

Judaism, 36

Julius Caesar, 37

Jupiter (god), 18, 19

Jupiter (planet), 13

Kant, Immanuel, 173–74

Kelvin, Lord, 204

kinetoscope, 71

King’s holly, 161–62

Kingsley, Charles, 65

Koyaanisqatsi
(dir. Reggio), 71

Kubrick, Stanley, 204

Kurosawa, Akira, 72

Kurzweil, Ray, 203, 206

Lamb, Charles, 114

Language, Thought and Reality
(Whorf), 94

Laplace, Pierre-Simon de, 207

The Last Three Minutes
(Davies), 101

Latin language, 93

latitude, 46

Lawrence, D. H., 13

Lemaître, Georges, 172

Levine, Martin, 100

Libet, Benjamin, 82–83

lifespan, 159–62

light, 97–98, 103–4

speed of, 8–9, 44, 98–100, 104

from stars, 85–86

light cones, 88–89, 140

limestone, 151, 152–53, 156–57, 163, 181–82

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Lewis), 51

longitude, 46

Lorenz, Edward, 207

love, 109–10

Lucretius, 14

Lumière, Louis and Auguste, 67–68

lunar cycles, 33, 35

Lyons, Harold, 51

Magnusson, Magnus, 216

mammals, 116, 184

Mandelbrot, Benoît, 49–50

Marcus Aurelius, 25, 113

Marey, Étienne-Jules, 71

Marrison, Warren A., 50–51

Marshak, Alexander, 35

Marvell, Andrew, 20

Marya
(Oates), 26

The Matrix
(dir. A. & L. Wachowski), 72

Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, 136

media time, 75, 76, 77, 80.
See also specific media

Meditations
(Marcus Aurelius), 25, 113

megathurium, 184

Méliès, Georges, 68, 70

memory, 132–35

Metamorphoses
(Ovid), 19

Michelsen, Albert, 204

microseconds, 50

Milky Way, 214

mind, 123.
See also
brain; thought; unconscious

Mind Children
(Moravec), 217–18

Minkowski, Hermann, 87–88

minutes, 43–44

monasteries, 39–40

Monsaingeon, Bruno, 138

months, 35, 37.
See also
August

Moravec, Hans, 206, 217–18, 220–21

Morris, Michael, 189

Morse, Samuel, 63

motion pictures, 66–68

Mount Wilson Observatory, 171

Musger, August, 71

music, 138

Muybridge, Eadweard, 59–62, 66

nanoseconds, 51

nanotechnology, 203, 206

A Natural History of Love
(Ackerman), 90

Neoproterozoic eon, 183

neurons, 115–16

“A New Refutation of Time” (Borges), 30

New York World’s Fair (1939), 168–69

newspapers, 64

Niagara Escarpment, 181–82

Niagara Falls, 148–49, 153

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 140–42

Norse peoples, 93, 216–17

nostalgia, 77–79

Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich, 25, 186, 188, 189

“now,” 54–56

nuclear energy, 204

nundinum
, 36

Núñez, Rafael, 93–94

Oates, Joyce Carol, 26

oceans, 163

Ordovician period, 157

Ott, John, 70

Ovid, 19

Paleozoic era, 183

Pantheon, 80

paradoxes, 157–58, 186, 190

Parentini, Renaud, 201–2

Parmenides, 23

Peckinpah, Sam, 72

Penzias, Arno, 172–73

phenakistoscope, 66

phonograph, 65

photography, 59–60, 65.
See also
motion pictures

slow motion, 71–74

time-lapse, 69–71

photons, 103

physicists, 25, 26. See
also
physics physics, 204

laws of, 25, 142–43, 178–79

quantum, 102, 174–75

The Physics of Immortality
(Tipler), 222–23

pines, bristlecone, 161

plants, 115, 160–62, 200–201

plastic surgery, 79

Plutarch, 19

Polaris (star), 85

Pompeii, 185–86

Porter, Edwin S., 68

praxinoscope, 66, 67

predictions, 200, 203–8

present, 10–11

prime meridian, 46

procrastination, 123–24

Prometheus Bound
(Aeschylus), 97

quantum foam, 188–89

quantum particles, 142

quantum physics, 102, 174–75

Quaternary period, 55, 184

Rabelais, François, 38

radiation

background, 172–73

Cherenkov, 100

Hawking, 178, 202, 223

Rasselas
(Johnson), 5

red shift, 171

redwoods, 160

relativity, 8–9, 54

theory of, 88, 186, 187, 192

religion, 35, 108, 216.
See also specific religions

reptiles, 182–83

retro, 77–79

reversibility, principle of, 142–43

Reynaud, Charles-Émile, 66, 67

Rhea (goddess), 19

Richardson, Lewis F., 49

Riefler, Siegmund, 50

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 210

Rimbaud, Arthur, 97

ripples

fossilized, 154

in space-time, 202, 227–29

The River of Time
(Novikov), 25, 188

Robert the Englishman, 40

robots, 203, 205–6

Rodin, Auguste, 62

Roman Empire, 36–37

Rome (city), 79–80

Römer, Ole, 44

routine, 110, 117

Routledge, N. A., 24

Rowling, J. K., 193

Royal Ontario Museum, 150–51

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
(Fitzgerald), 15

Russell, Bertrand, 20

Sagan, Carl, 225

Une saison en enfer
(Rimbaud), 97

Sangamonian era, 156

Saturn (god), 21–22.
See also
Cronos

Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
(Goya), 19–20

science, 207.
See also
physics

seasons, 32–33, 183–85

“Seasons” (Huxley), 20

“The Second Coming” (Yeats), 140

seconds, 44, 45–46, 50, 51

The Secrets of Life
(dir. Ott), 70

sequoias, 160

The Seven Samurai
(dir. Kurosawa), 72