Soul of the World (23 page)
Authors: Christopher Dewdney
Shakespeare, William, 21, 92, 109
H.M.S.
Sheffield
, 81–83
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 203
Shortt, William H., 50
simulations, 217–18
singularities, 203
the sixties, 77–79
Sockman, Ralph W, 204
solar observatory, 33
“Song of a Man Who Has Come Through” (Lawrence), 13
space.
See also
space-time
time and, 191–92
time as, 129
space elevator, 205
space program, 78
space-time, 87–88, 140, 188–89.
See also
space; time; universe
collapse of, 223
as curved, 187–88, 192
as fluid, 201–2
Spinoza, Benedict, 108
sports, 122
Stanford, Leland, 60, 61, 62
starlight, 85–86
Stein, Gertrude, 124
stereograph, 68–69
sundials, 33
telegraph, 63–64, 65
teleology, 203
telephones, 63, 65–66
television, 77, 80, 81
Tertiary period, 184
Théorie analytique des probabilités
(Laplace), 207
thermodynamics, laws of, 25, 143
Thorne, Kip, 189
thought, 223.
See also
brain; mind
time.
See also
cycles; space-time; time travel
backwards, 142–43, 218–19
birth of, 173–75
body, 130
components of, 94
cultural, 55, 93–95
as cyclical, 140–42
daylight saving, 209
deep brain, 130–31
dilation of, 98–100
direction of, 89–90
dream, 135–36
elevation and, 54, 100
as fourth dimension, 87–88
geological, 55, 148–49, 153, 181–82
as local, 98–99
in media, 75, 76, 77, 80
metaphorical, 91–93
personal, 10–11, 158–59
prehistoric, 147–57
as prison, 122
“real,” 80–82
saving, 117–18, 209
as sensory experience, 95–96
and space, 191–92
as space, 129
stopped, 101–2, 107–8
universal, 7, 102–3
warped, 98–99
words for, 93–95
Time and Time Again
(Finney), 193
time capsules, 166–69
time cones, 88–89
time lags, 81–82
The Time Machine
(Wells), 70–71, 191
time machines, 195–96
time management, 123–24
time signals, 64
time travel, 83, 186–95
machines for, 195–96
paradoxes of, 186, 190
The Time Tunnel
(TV series), 194
time zones, 64
Time’s Arrow
(Amis), 143
Tipler, Frank, 212–14, 219, 222–23, 224–25
tortoises, 159–60
trackways, 153–54
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
(Wittgenstein), 107
trees, 160–62
trilobites, 149, 151, 154, 157, 163
tuataras, 162
The Turning
(Winton), 26
Tutankhamen, 147
2001: A Space Odyssey
(dir. Kubrick), 204–5
unconscious, 135–36.
See also
mind
universe
age of, 107
birth of, 173–74
contraction of, 220, 221, 225
dimensions in, 87–88, 188–89
end of, 219–24
as expanding, 171–72
and human life, 212–14
timeline of, 224–25
unprovability theorem, 207
Unruh, William, 201–2
Uranus (god), 18–19
Valéry, Paul, 62
verb tenses, 94–95
Vessor, Robert, 100
video conferencing, 80
Vikings, 216
A Vision
(Yeats), 140, 142
Le voyage dans la lune
(dir. Méliès), 68
watches, 121.
See also
clocks
weeks, 36–37
Wells, H. G., 70–71, 191, 210
Westinghouse Corporation, 168–69
Weyl, Hermann, 201
Wheeler, John, 187–88
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 4, 5
Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 94
Wilson, Robert, 172–73
Winton, Tim, 26
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 107
world lines, 87–88, 89–90
The World We Live In
(Time-Life Books), 152
wormholes, 187–90
writers, 124, 137–38
years, 33, 37, 51–52
Yeats, W.B., 140, 142
Yggdrasil, 160, 216–17
Yurtsever, Ulvi, 189
Zeno of Elea, 23
Zeno’s Arrow, 23–24, 49, 220–21
zoetrope, 66
zoopraxiscope, 66
I extend my initial thanks to my publisher, Iris Tupholme at HarperCollins Canada, for her continuing support and assistance. As well, I thank my editor, Jim Gifford, and managing editor, Noelle Zitzer, who oversaw final production.
Barbara Gowdy also provided invaluable editorial advice during the preparation of the manuscript. In addition, thanks go to Rob Firing and his team.
This book was assisted and influenced by many, including Marnie Jackson, Ken Alexander, Martin Levin, and Margaret Atwood. Grateful acknowledgement is also made to the authors whose work is cited in the book and listed in its bibliography.
In addition, I am indebted to my agent, Bruce Westwood of Westwood Creative Artists, who provided much of the time to write this book. Finally, I thank Carolyn Forde and Natasha Daneman, also of Westwood Creative Artists, for all their assistance.
Soul of the World
© 2008 by Christopher Dewdney.
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