Relativity Lite

Index | 103 INDEX 1g (see one gravity) 2D, 47, 64 abbreviated, 25, 26 Abell 2218, 48 absolute zero, 68, 86 accelerating expansion, 71, 84 acceleration, 25, 26, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 56, 60, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95, 98, 101 age of the universe, 86 Albrecht, Andreas, and Paul J. Steinhardt, 80, 83 Alpha Centauri, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 93, 100 Alpher, R. A., and R. C. Herman, 68 Andromeda Galaxy, 89 angular momentum, 52, 53, 81 annihilating, 80 antigravitational force, 84 antimatter, 80, 82 antiprotons, 80 approxiamations, 23 arc, 29, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 56, 72, 73, 93, 98, 99 astronaut, 24, 45, 59, 61, 62, 63 atmosphere, 8, 9, 10, 18, 28, 50, 55 back in time, 77 backward, 71, 76, 78 ball, 24, 25, 45, 47, 82, 83, 89 balloon, 68, 74 Barish, Barry, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss, 66 barrier, 52, 53 beam of light, 2, 5, 45 bending, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 56, 60, 64 Big Bang, 67, 68, 77, 79, 84, 85 Big Crunch, 77, 89 black hole, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 101 blue shift, 32 boundless, 74 Brunelleschi, Filippo, 46 c (the speed of light), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 44, 45, 58, 60, 61, 62, 75, 80, 87, 95, 96, 99, 101 Caldwell, R. R., R. Dave, and P. J. Steinhardt, 92 Cameron, Alastair, 67 carbon, 50, 54 Casimir, Hendrik, 81, 92 Chandra telescope, 89, 90 Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 55 chord, 72, 73 circumference, 70, 72, 73 classical, 61 CLEA, 87 clock, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 15, 23, 24, 34, 35, 37, 41, 56, 61, 63, 69, 70, 72, 73, 96 clocks running slowly, 41 closed universe, 77, 78, 86 cluster, 48, 89, 90 CMB (see Cosmic Microwave Background) coalescence, 54 coincident, 31 collapse, 54, 55, 56, 62, 63, 77, 91 collide, 65 Coma cluster, 89