Relativity Lite

Index | 105 frame shifting, 37 frame to frame, 39 free space, 43, 61 frequency, 30, 32, 33, 35, 37, 61 friction, 76, 82 Friedmann equation, 74, 91, 92 funnel, 49, 51, 55, 83 fuse, 54 future, 64, 71, 78 G. Douglas Straton, 11, 12 Gaia telescope, 29 galactic cluster, 48 galaxy, 48, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 78, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 gamma (γ) (see time dilation) Gamow, George, 91 Geller, Margaret J., and John P. Huchra, 87 graphic calculator, 19 graphically, 45 gravitational, 25, 43, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 71, 74, 77, 80, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91, 98, 99 gravitational field, 45, 57, 63, 68, 99 gravitational wave, 64, 65 gravitationally, 38, 46, 48, 61, 89 grid, 30, 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 47, 85 ground state, 82 Guth, Alan H., 79, 80, 83, 84 H 0 (Hubble constant), 73, 74, 77 Hagen, Carl, Gerald Guralnik, and Tom Kibble, 79 half-life, 8, 9, 10, 18, 26 Hanford LIGO, 65, 66 heat, 54, 83 height, 3, 6, 9, 24, 57 Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, 80 helium, 54, 67 helium flash, 54 Higgs, Peter W., 13, 28, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84 Higgs boson, 13, 28, 79 Higgs false vacuum, 84 Higgs field, 79, 80, 84 high-temperature, 82, 83 Hilbert, David, 78, 79 homogeneous, 71 hot, 54, 76, 77, 80, 83, 89 Hubble, Edwin, 67 Hubble Space telescope, 89, 90 Hubble–Lemaître law, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75 Hulse, Russell, and Joseph Taylor Jr., 65 hydrogen, 28, 54, 67 hypersphere, 68, 71, 74 hypotenuse, 5, 18, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 44, 45, 60, 95, 101 IAU, 67, 101 ice skater, 52, 81 illusion, 38 inertia, 51, 53 infinite, 12, 13, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 63, 74, 76, 77, 78 infinitely, 55, 59, 60, 67, 77, 78, 79 infinitesimal angle, 81 infinity, 13, 57, 58, 60, 78, 79 inflation, 79, 84, 85, 86 inflationary expansion, 80, 84, 85, 86 interstellar shock wave, 54 invariant, 13, 26, 27, 28, 94, 95, 96 iron, 54, 81 Israel, Werner, and Eric Poisson, 62 k (curvature parameter), 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 92 KE (see kinetic energy) Kelvin, 86 Kerr Black Holes, 63 Kervella, P., F. Mignard, A. Mérand, and F. Thévenin, 29 kinetic energy (KE), 24, 27, 28, 50, 51, 57, 81 koan, 13 Lagrangian, 81 Lamoreaux, S. K., 81 Las Campanas Redshift Survey Catalog, 87 Latitude, 87, 88 Led Zeppelin, 23 Lemaître, Georges, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74 length, 5, 6, 15, 18, 19, 24, 26, 27, 34, 45, 56, 59, 60, 62, 69, 72, 73, 93, 95, 98, 99 length contraction, 18, 34 life, 10, 11, 12, 14, 25, 91