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Index

a priori knowledge
136
,
137
,
282

abstract, importance of in

scientific method
9
,
13
,
14
,
16—17
,
130

Accidental Universe, The
(Davies)
279

‘active galaxies'
257

Adams, John
19

ADD (Arkani-Hamed/

Dimopoulos/Dvali)
200—1

Adler, Robert
231—2

Alpher, Ralph
111
,
112—13
,
114
,
114
n,
115

Alvarez-Gaumé, Luis
191

Ambler, Eric
66

amplification, irreversible act of
211—12

Anderson, Carl
64

Andromeda nebulae/galaxy
109
,
125

Anthropic Bias
(Bostrom)
277—8
,
281—2

‘Anthropic Bound on the

Cosmological Constant'

(Weinberg)
278—9

anthropic cosmological principle
x
,
261—83

anthropic multiverse
268—9
,
278
,
281—3

carbon coincidence
262—5

goldilocks enigma
265—7

intelligent design, the

argument from
270—7

reality check
277—81

strong anthropic principle
269—70
,
272

weak anthropic principle
267—8
,
278
,
283

Anthropic Cosmological Principle,

The (Barrow/Tipler)
270
,
272—3
,
275—6
,
279

anti-de Sitter space (AdS)
255—6

anti-matter
58
,
60
,
167

anti-neutrino
67
,
160
,
161

anti-particles
66
,
160
,
161
,
166
,
175
,
189

anti-quark
74
,
75
,
77
,
130
,
136
,
185
,
185
n

Arkani-Hamed, Nima
200

Arrhenius, Svante
184

Aspect experiment
48
,
135

Aspect, Alain
48

Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy)
13

asymptotic freedom
76
,
188

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC

Apparatus)
10
,
10
n,
11
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
178

atoms
56

atomic spectrum
109

Big Bang and
103
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
128
,
132
,
133

construction of mass and
77—8
,
79

primeval
110
,
111

properties of
56

auxiliary assumptions or

hypotheses
19
,
20
,
105

axion
141—2

Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX), University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
142

Barnett, Lincoln
93

Barrow, John
270
,
272
,
274
,
275—6
,
279

baryonic matter
127
,
127
n,
141
,
148

baryons
65
,
74
,
76—7

Bayes, Thomas
281—2
,
283

Bekenstein, Jacob
247
,
248
,
249

Bell Laboratories, New Jersey
115
,
244

Bell, John
46—51
,
50
,
51
,
53
,
129
,
134
,
135
,
210
,
213

Bell's inequality
47—51
,
53
,
129
,
135
,
210

Bellevue, Switzerland
49

Berkeley, George
5

Bernex, Switzerland
49

beta function
185
,
195

beta-radioactivity
56—7
,
67
,
75

Bethe, Hans
62

Big Bang cosmology (ACDM)
111—12
,
216
,
221
,
229

COBE, WMAP and
121—3

cosmic inflation and
117—19

cosmic microwave

background and
112—14

cosmological constant and
104—6
,
120
,
124—6
,
127
,
143
,
145
,
261
,
278

dark energy and
124—7

dark matter and
122—4

expansion of universe and
104
,
107—8
,
125—7

fine-tuning problem
222

flatness and horizon problem
115—16
,
221

grand unification epoch and
118
,
121

hot
114
,
227
,
230

Hubble's law and
108—9

inflation
see
inflation

standard model of
102—28
,
159

symmetry/supersymmetry and
159
,
168
,
170
,
171
,
172

why the standard model can't be right
129
,
130
,
134
,
139
,
142
,
143
,
150
,
229

big splat
228

black holes:

complementarity
250—2

dark matter and
142—3

Hawking radiation and
142—3
,
248—50
,
251
,
252
,
257
,
258

‘information paradox'
250—1

MACHOs and
124

reality check
256—9