and stellar evolution and decay, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Ostriker, Jeremiah: and cosmological constant, [>]
and galaxy formation, [>]–[>]
on gravity waves, [>]
Oxford Symposium on Quantum Gravity (1974), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
particles: antiparticles, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
gravitons, [>]–[>]
high-energy, [>]
photons, [>], [>]
and quantum electrodynamics, [>]–[>]
quarks, [>]
types of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Pauli, Wolfgang, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and exclusion principle, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
on Oppenheimer, [>]
Pawsey, Joseph: and radio astronomy, [>], [>]
Peebles, Philip James: background and personality of, [>]–[>], [>]
and “Big Bang” theory, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and CDM model, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and cosmological constant, [>], [>], [>]
and cosmology, [>]–[>]
and dark matter, [>]
and evolution of universe, [>]–[>], [>]
and galaxy formation, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
on general relativity, [>]–[>]
and large-scale structure theory, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and Modified Newtonian Dynamics, [>]
Physical Cosmology, [>]
Penrose, Roger, [>], [>]
and “Big Bang” theory, [>]
and black holes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
at Center for Relativity, [>]–[>]
creates spin networks, [>]
and general relativity, [>]–[>], [>]
“Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities,” [>]
and gravity waves, [>]
Penrose diagrams, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Penrose superradiance, [>]
Penzias, Arno: and “Big Bang” theory, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Perlmutter, Saul: wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Perrine, Charles, [>]
photoelectric effect: Einstein and, [>]–[>]
Lenard discovers, [>]
Physical Cosmology (Peebles), [>]
physics, Newtonian. See Newtonian physics
physics, quantum. See quantum physics
Planck, Max, [>]
planets: orbits of, [>]–[>]
plutonium: Seaborg discovers, [>]
predictability: general relativity and, [>]
Pretorius, Frans: and gravity waves, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
solves field equations, [>]–[>]
Primack, Joel: and cosmological constant, [>]
“primordial egg.” See “Big Bang” theory
Príncipe expedition (1919): Eddington leads, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Principia Mathematica (Whitehead & Russell), [>]
Prussian Academy of Sciences: Einstein as fellow of, [>], [>]
pulsars, [>]. See also neutron stars
Bell discovers, [>]–[>]
quantum electrodynamics (QED), [>]
DeWitt and, [>], [>]
Dirac and, [>]–[>]
quantum electrodynamics (QED) (cont.)
particles and, [>]–[>]
Schwinger and, [>], [>]
and unified theory, [>]–[>], [>]
quantum geometry, [>]
quantum gravity, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and cosmological constant, [>]
DeWitt and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
gravitons in, [>], [>]
Hawking and, [>]–[>]
Jacobson and, [>]
Krasnow and, [>]
loop quantum gravity, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Rovelli and, [>], [>]
Smolin and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
spin networks and, [>], [>]
string theory and, [>], [>], [>]
Woit and, [>]
quantum physics, [>], [>]
basic principles of, [>]–[>]
and black holes, [>]–[>]
Bohr and, [>]
Chandra and, [>]–[>], [>]
and dialectical materialism, [>]–[>]
Dirac and, [>], [>]–[>]
exclusion principle in, [>], [>]
Feynman and, [>], [>]
and general relativity, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Heisenberg and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Hoyle and, [>]
information and predictability in, [>]
Landau and, [>], [>]
light in, [>]–[>]
observational evidence for, [>]–[>]
Oppenheimer and, [>], [>]–[>]
Schrödinger and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
in Soviet Union, [>]–[>]
and special relativity, [>]–[>]
and stars, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
uncertainty principle in, [>]–[>], [>]
Wheeler and, [>], [>]
quarks, [>]
quasars, [>]. See also radio sources
Bell and, [>]
as black holes, [>]
and general relativity, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Oppenheimer and, [>]–[>]
Rees and, [>]–[>]
Sciama and, [>], [>]–[>]
at Texas Symposium (1963), [>]–[>]
radar: developed in World War II, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Hoyle researches, [>]–[>], [>]
Ryle researches, [>], [>]
radio astronomy: Chandra and, [>], [>]
and cosmology, [>], [>]–[>]
development of, [>]–[>], [>]
and general relativity, [>]–[>]
Gold and, [>]–[>]
Lovell and, [>], [>]
and Milky Way galaxy, [>]–[>], [>]
Pawsey and, [>], [>]
Ryle and, [>], [>]
radio sources. See also quasars
black holes as, [>]–[>]
distribution of, [>]–[>], [>]
Lovell and, [>]
Mills and, [>]–[>]
physical nature of, [>]–[>], [>]
Reber and, [>], [>]
redshift effect and, [>], [>]
Ryle and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Schmidt and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Slee and, [>]–[>]
radio stars. See quasars; radio sources
radio telescope: Reber invents, [>]
Reber, Grote: “Cosmic Static,” [>], [>]
invents radio telescope, [>]
and radio sources, [>], [>]
redshift effect: Hubble measures, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Humason measures, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and radio sources, [>], [>]
Slipher measures, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Rees, Martin, [>], [>]
and “Big Bang” theory, [>]
and black holes, [>], [>], [>], [>]
on cosmology, [>]–[>]
and gravity waves, [>]
and quasars, [>]–[>]
and steady-state theory, [>]
“Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom” (Sakharov), [>]
“Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extragalactic Nebulae, A” (Hubble), [>]
relativity, general: basic prinicples of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Bekenstein and modifications to, [>]–[>], [>]
“Big Bang” theory and, [>]
black holes and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Bondi and, [>], [>], [>]
and dark matter, [>]
and dialectical materialism, [>]–[>]
Dicke and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
difficulty in understanding, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Dirac and modifications to, [>], [>]–[>]
, [>]
Dyson on, [>]
Eddington promotes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
effect on astronomy, [>]
effects on spacetime, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Ellis and, [>]
and evolution of universe, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Feynman and, [>]–[>], [>]
field equations of. See field equations
galaxies in, [>], [>]
Gödel and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Gold on, [>]
Goudsmit and, [>]
gravity in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and gravity waves, [>]
Hawking and, [>]
as key scientific concept, [>]–[>], [>]
Lemaître promotes, [>], [>]
Lenard rejects, [>]
limitations of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
neutron stars and, [>]–[>]
Newtonian physics and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
observational evidence for, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Oppenheimer and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and origin of universe, [>]–[>]
as orthodoxy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Peebles on, [>]–[>]
Penrose and, [>]–[>], [>]
as “perfect theory,” [>], [>]
popular interest in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and predictability, [>]
proposed modifications to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
quantum physics and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
quasars and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
radio astronomy and, [>]–[>]
resistance to, [>]
Sakharov and modifications to, [>]
and satellite missions, [>]–[>]
Schild and, [>]–[>]
in Soviet Union, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Stark rejects, [>]
and string theory, [>]–[>]
tensor-vector-scalar theory and, [>]
Weinberg and, [>]
Wheeler and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Zel’dovich and, [>]–[>]
relativity, numerical, [>]–[>], [>]
relativity, special: basic principles of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
inertial frames of reference in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
quantum physics and, [>]–[>]
Silberstein and, [>]–[>]
relic radiation: in “Big Bang” theory, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
measurement of, [>]–[>]
Research Institute for Advanced Studies, [>]
Riemann, Bernhard: and non-Euclidian geometry, [>], [>], [>]
Riess, Adam: wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Robertson, H. P., [>]
Rosen, Nathan, [>]
Rovelli, Carlo: and quantum gravity, [>], [>]
Royal Astronomical Society, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Rubin, Vera, [>]
and Andromeda Galaxy, [>]–[>]
Ruffini, Remo, [>]
Russell, Bertrand, [>]
and incompleteness theorem, [>]
Rutherford, Ernest, [>]
Ryle, Martin: attacks steady-state theory, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
background of, [>]–[>]
and Hoyle, [>]
and radar research, [>], [>]
and radio astronomy, [>], [>]
and radio sources, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
wins Nobel Prize, [>], [>]
Sachs, Rainer: and “Big Bang” theory, [>]
Sagan, Carl, [>]
Sakharov, Andrei: background of, [>]
and cosmology, [>]–[>]
and field equations, [>]
and gravity, [>]
and modifications to general relativity, [>], [>]
political opinions, [>]–[>]
“Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom,” [>]
and spacetime, [>]–[>]
Zel’dovich and, [>], [>]
Salam, Abdus, [>]
and electroweak force, [>]
and standard model, [>], [>]
Salpeter, Edwin, [>]–[>]
satellite missions: general relativity and, [>]–[>]
Schild, Alfred, [>]
background of, [>]–[>]
forms Center for Relativity, [>]–[>], [>]
Schmidt, Brian: and cosmological constant, [>]
wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Schmidt, Maarten: and radio sources, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Schrödinger, Erwin, [>]
flees Germany, [>]
and quantum physics, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Space-Time Structure, [>]
Schutz, Bernard, [>], [>]
Schwartz, John: and string theory, [>], [>]–[>]
Schwarzschild, Karl, [>]
death of, [>]
discovers black holes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Eddington on, [>]
“The Effect of Wind and Air-Density on the Path of a Projectile,” [>]
and Einstein, [>]–[>]
and gravity’s effects on spacetime, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
solves field equations, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in World War I, [>]
“Schwarzschild surface,” [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schwinger, Julian: and quantum electrodynamics, [>], [>]
Sciama, Dennis, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
accepts “Big Bang” theory, [>], [>]
background of, [>]–[>]
and black holes, [>]
and Dirac, [>]–[>]
and gravity waves, [>]
and Hawking, [>]–[>], [>]
and quasars, [>], [>]–[>]
and steady-state theory, [>]–[>], [>]
Seaborg, Glenn: discovers plutonium, [>]
Serber, Robert, [>]
Silberstein, Ludwik: and special relativity, [>]–[>]
Silk, Joseph: and “Big Bang” theory, [>], [>], [>]
and large-scale structure theory, [>]
singularities. See “Big Bang” theory; black holes
Sirius B: as white dwarf star, [>], [>]
Slee, Bruce: and radio sources, [>]–[>]
Slipher, Vesto: measures redshift effect, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Smarr, Larry: and black holes, [>], [>]
Smolin, Lee: and quantum gravity, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
on string theory, [>]
Smoot, George: and Cosmic Background Explorer, [>]
wins Nobel Prize, [>]
Snyder, Hartland: and black holes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and stellar evolution and decay, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Sommerfeld, Arnold, [>]
Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (Dallas), [>]
Soviet Union: develops atomic bomb, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
general relativity in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
purge of physicists in, [>]
quantum physics in, [>]–[>]
Space-Time Structure (Schrödinger), [>]
spacetime: canonical approach to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
covariant approach to, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
curvature of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
effect of gravity on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
effects of general relativity on, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>
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