About Time
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of orbits
of space-time
geosynchronous satellites
Gilbert, William
Gleiser, Marcelo
global civilization
global positioning system (GPS)
gluons
golden age, myth of
Goldschmidt, Victor
grand unified theories (GUTs)
graviton
gravity
Einstein’s theories of; see also relativity, theory of
fossils
in hyperdimensional space
Newton’s laws of
gravity waves
Great Depression
Greece, ancient
Antikythera mechanism in
cosmology of
creation mythology in
creativity and culture in Hellenistic
Middle Ages and access to
rationality in
time in
Greene, Brian
greenhouse gases
Greenwich Mean Time
Gregorian calendar
Guth, Alan
Halley, Edmund
Harappan culture
Harrison, Edward
Harrison, Johnn
Hawking, Stephen
Heisenberg, Werner
heliocentric solar system
helium
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Herman, Robert
Herschel, William
Hertz, Heinrich
Hesiod
Hinduism
Hipparchus of Rhodes
Hiroshima
History of the Hour (van Rossum)
Homo sapiens,
Hooker telescope
Horloge du Palais
hours
housework, time spent on
Hoyle, Fred
Hubble, Edwin
on expanding universe
Hubble’s Law
Humason, Milton
hunter-gatherers
hydrogen
hydrogen bombs
hyperexpansion
Ice Age
Ideals, Doctrine of
India
Indra
Indus River valley, urban revolution in
industrial revolution
time and
infinity
inflation
cosmic
eternal
in multiverse
inflationary cosmology
inflatons
Ingold, Tim
innovation
intercalations
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
interferometry
Internet
invariants
iron age
iron manufacturing
irregularities, space-time
Islam
island universes
isotropy
Judaism
Julian calendar
Kant, Immanuel
Kapteyn, Jacobus
KC-136 Stratotanker
Keck telescope
Kepler, Johannes
Keplerian orbits
Kepler’s Laws
kinematics
Kolb, Rocky
Konso
Korolyov, Sergey
Kosmos
Kragh, Helge
Kronos (Greek god)
Lactantius
Laplace, Pierre
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
“Law Without Law” (Wheeler)
Leavitt, Henrietta
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lemaître, Georges
LeMay, Curtis
leptons
Lick Observatory
light
beams of
particles of
speed of
time dilation and
waves of
lighting, artificial
Linde, Andrei
Lippershey, Hans
lithium
local area networks (LANs)
London Exhibition of
longitude
loop quantum gravity
Lowell Observatory
Lucky Dragon
lunar calendars
lunar cycles
lunisolar calendars
Lyell, Charles
Mach, Ernest
magnetism
Manhattan Project
maps
cosmic
of Earth
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marshack, Alexander
Masks of God (Campbell)
mass-energy
mass-energy density
material engagement
Copernican revolution and
digital technologies and
GPS and
industrial revolution and
material depletion and
measurement and
in Middle Ages
with nuclear forces
with time
mathematics
astronomy and
Greek creation myths and
nature and
matins
matter
density of
matter-energy
Maxwell, James Clerk
measurement standards, invention of
mechanics, Newtonian
Mediterranean
Meek, Joe
megaliths
membranes, see branes
memory
merchant class, rise of
meridian
Mesoamerica
Mesopotamia
calendars in
metaphysics
Michelson, Albert
Microsoft Outlook
Middle Ages
cosmology in
Milky Way
Minkowski, Hermann
Misner, Charles
Mithen, Steven
Mixmaster universe
mobile phones
GPS-enabled
Modern Revelation
Mohenjo-Daro
momentum
monasteries, time in
“Monastery and the Clock, The” (Mumford)
Monte Cassino
months
moon, phases of, see lunar cycles
moon landing
Morley, Edward
motion
in gravitation
relative
Mount Wilson Observatory
M-theory
multiverse
inflation in
time in
Mumford, Lewis
music
myth
agrarian
cosmology and
cyclicz
lost paradise in
Myth of Eternal Return, The (Eliade)
naive realism
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
National Academy of Sciences
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Electric Light Association
natural philosophy
nature:
laws of
man and
rational view of
science and
time and
Naval Research Laboratory
Navstar (Navigation System with Timing and Ranging)
Neanderthals
nebulae
Neolithic era
cycle of eternal return in
neutrons
primordial soup of
Never Done (Strasser)
Newton, Isaac
as Christian
divine sensorium of
gravitation laws of
mechanics of
physics of
time and
New York, NY.
night
no-creation myths
noon, determination of
Nows, time as succession of
nuclear cooking
nuclear fission
nuclear forces
nuclear fusion
nuclear reactions
nuclear thermodynamics
nuclear war, nuclear weapons
nucleosynthesis
nucleus
oil reserves
Okasha, Samir
omega parameter
Once Before Time (Bojowald)
Operation Alert
Oresme, Nicole
Ovrut, Burt
Palaeolithic era
Paris, University of
Paris Electrical Exhibition of
Parmenides of Elea
particle accelerators
particle physics
cosmology and
dark matter and
GUTs in
standard model
p-branes
Penrose, Roger
Pentagon
Penzias, Arno A.
Perlmutter, Saul
Persephone
personal digital assistants (PDAs)
personal information management
Petrini, Carlo
petrochemical technologies
phase transitions
Philadelphia Exposition of
philosophy
photons
physical embodiment, cognitive transition and
physics
abstract
Aristotle and
astrophysics
classical
cosmology and
Einstein’s reworking of
experimental method in
foundational
frames of reference and
intuitive
laws of
and the multiverse
Newtonian
nonreligious God in
particle, see particle physics
Platonic idealism and
in pocket universes
quantum
of relativity
space-time in
standard model
telegraphy and
temporality in
terrestrial
theoretical
thermodynamics and
Pierce, J. R.
Pius XII, Pope
Planck length
planetary motion
Kepler’s laws of
retrograde
Plaskett, John
Plato
Doctrine of Forms (Ideals) of
Platonia
Platonic laws
Platonic solids
plenum
pocket universes
Pogge, Richard
Poincaré, Henri
point particles
pontifices (calendar priests)
potential energy curve
prime
Principia (Newton)
Project Diana
Protestant Reformation
protons
Ptolemy, Claudius
Pythagoras
quantum cosmology
quantum field theory
quantum fluctuations
quantum gravity
loop
quantum mechanics, quantum physics
quarks
quintessence
radar
radiation
fossil
radio
scheduled programming for
radioactive decay
radioactivity
radiocarbon dating
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
radiotelegraphy
rationality:
in cosmology
in Greece
Newton and
Reagan, Ronald
realism, anti-realism vs.
redshifts
refrigerators
relativity, theory of
general, see general relativity
GPS and
special
religion
calendars and
cosmology and
and science
urban revolution and
see also specific religions
Renaissance
Renfrew, Colin
resource depletion
réverbère
Rhodes
Riemann, Bernhard
Rifkin, Jeremy
Rodgers, John
Rome
calendars in
Romer, Ole
Sarnoff, David
satellites:
in communications
GPS and
SatNav, see global positioning system
Schmidt, Brian
science
goal of
modern
science wars
scientific management
scientific revolution
ancient Greek
Einstein’s relativity as
quantum physics as
seasons
sext
shamans
Shapley, Harlow
ship-to-shore radio
Shiva
Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) (Galileo)
silicon technology
simultaneity
singularities
sky:
natural rhythms of
time and
sky gods
sleep, transformation of
Slipher, Vesto
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Slow Food movement
Smolin, Lee
Smoot, George
social construction
Social Text scandal
Sokal, Alan
solar calendars
solar cycles
solar eclipses
solar system
cosmology of
solstices
sound waves
Soviet Union
space
absolute
infinity of
infinity vs. boundedness of
machines and
matter and
Newton and
separation of time from
telegraphy and
space-based instruments
space programme
space-time
baby universes and
curved
expansion of
flexible geometry of
four-dimensional
gravitational bending of
inflation theory and
quantum mechanical
ripples in
special relativity
Spelke, Elizabeth
spiral nebulae
Sputnik
standard candles
Standard of Ur
stars
as calendar
collapsing
energy of
“fixed,”
formation of
mapping of
motion of
pulsating
rotation of
stasis
steam engines
Steinhardt, Paul
Stoics
Stonehenge
Strasser, Susan
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
string theory
cosmology and
first revolution of
hyperdimensional brane-world vision in
landscapes in
quantum gravity and
second revolution in
seven extra dimensions in
sublunar domain
Sumer
summer
sun
sun dials
superforce
supernovae, Type Ia
superunification
Susskind, Leonard
Suzuki Roshi
symbols, symbolic thought
synodic month
Syntaxis Mathematica (Ptolemy)
Tait, Peter Guthrie
Taylor, Frederick
telegraphs
telephones
telescopes
television
Teller, Edward
“Telstar” (song)
Tels
tar satellite
temperature
of cosmic plasma
temporal awareness
temporal flotation
temporality, Outlook and
Tertullian
Thales
theory of everything (TOE)
thermodynamics
first law of
second law of
Thompson, William
Thor-Delta rockets
3-brane
3-D universes
time
absolute
abstraction of
arbitrary measurement of
Aristotle on
Barbour’s questioning of existence of
beginning and ending of
birth of cultural
celestial
changing conceptions of
in cosmologies
creation and
differentiated
and digital culture
economics and
efficiency and
electronically co-ordinated
energy resources and
evolution and
geometry of
in Greece
housework compression and
human mental awakening and
imperatives of
industrial revolution and
infinity of
institutional
linear
local
material engagement with
as measure of change
mechanics of
monastic
in multiverse
nature of
Newton and
in the Outlook universe
radio programming and
regimentation of
relativity and
scientific definitions of
separation of space from
standard
symbolic expression of,
synchronized
telegraphy and
thermodynamics and
traveller’s
urban revolution and
waiting and
wheel of
as without origin
time cycles
Time Wars (Rifkin)
Titanic
Tolman, Richard
Tomlinson, Ray
Tooby, John
tools
trade
trains
steam
time and
TRANSIT
travel, time and space in
Trexler, James
Trouble With Physics, The (Smolin)
true vacuum
Turok, Neil
twin paradox
2-branes
uncertainty
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
universe
building models of
conditions of uniformity in
cyclic, see cyclic universe
eternal
expanding
extent of
finite
holographic
hyperspherical model of
infinite
island
multiple, see multiverse
“no-boundary” models of
origins of
oscillating
static
steady-state
urban revolution
cosmological myths and
time and
Ussher, James
vacuum
false
true
vacuum cleaners
Vallee, Rudy
velocity
Venenziano, Gabriele
Venerable Bede
Venus
Vilenkin, Alexander
villages
von Braun, Wernher
von Seeliger, Hugo
vortices
washing machines
Washington Post
watches
water
water clocks
Watt, James
wave function
Way of Truth, The (Parmenides)
weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs)