The Perfect Theory (49 page)

and general relativity,
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gravity in,
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inconsistencies and limitations of,
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invention of,
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prediction in,
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Nobel Prize: Bell denied,
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Dirac wins,
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Feynman wins,
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Hewish wins,
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Hoyle and,
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Lenard wins,
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Penzias & Wilson win,
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Perlmutter wins,
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Riess wins,
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Ryle wins,
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Schmidt wins,
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Smoot wins,
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Townes wins,
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Novikov, Igor,
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and black holes,
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nuclear energy,
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nuclear physics: develops in World War II,
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Eddington and fusion,
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Landau and,
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Oppenheimer and fission,
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Wheeler and,
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Zel'dovich and,
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“Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source” (Bell),
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“On the Curvature of Space” (Friedmann),
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“On the Relativity Principle and the Conclusions Drawn From It” (Einstein),
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
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background of,
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and black holes,
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directs Institute for Advanced Study,
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and Einstein,
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and European scientific refugees,
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and general relativity,
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and Manhattan Project,
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and McCarthyism,
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and nuclear fission,
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Pauli on,
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personality of,
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political opinions,
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and quantum physics,
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and quasars,
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and stellar energy sources,
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and stellar evolution and decay,
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Ostriker, Jeremiah: and cosmological constant,
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and galaxy formation,
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on gravity waves,
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Oxford Symposium on Quantum Gravity (1974),
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particles: antiparticles,
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gravitons,
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high-energy,
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photons,
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and quantum electrodynamics,
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quarks,
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types of,
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Pauli, Wolfgang,
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and exclusion principle,
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on Oppenheimer,
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Pawsey, Joseph: and radio astronomy,
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Peebles, Philip James: background and personality of,
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and “Big Bang” theory,
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and CDM model,
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and cosmological constant,
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and cosmology,
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and dark matter,
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and evolution of universe,
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and galaxy formation,
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on general relativity,
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and large-scale structure theory,
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and Modified Newtonian Dynamics,
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Physical Cosmology,
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Penrose, Roger,
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and “Big Bang” theory,
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and black holes,
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at Center for Relativity,
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creates spin networks,
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and general relativity,
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“Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities,”
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and gravity waves,
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Penrose diagrams,
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Penrose superradiance,
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Penzias, Arno: and “Big Bang” theory,
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wins Nobel Prize,
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Perlmutter, Saul: wins Nobel Prize,
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Perrine, Charles,
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photoelectric effect: Einstein and,
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Lenard discovers,
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Physical Cosmology
(Peebles),
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physics, Newtonian.
See
Newtonian physics

physics, quantum.
See
quantum physics

Planck, Max,
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planets: orbits of,
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plutonium: Seaborg discovers,
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predictability: general relativity and,
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Pretorius, Frans: and gravity waves,
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solves field equations,
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Primack, Joel: and cosmological constant,
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“primordial egg.”
See
“Big Bang” theory

Príncipe expedition (1919): Eddington leads,
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Principia Mathematica
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Prussian Academy of Sciences: Einstein as fellow of,
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pulsars,
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See also
neutron stars

Bell discovers,
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quantum electrodynamics (QED),
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DeWitt and,
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Dirac and,
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quantum electrodynamics (QED) (
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particles and,
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Schwinger and,
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and unified theory,
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quantum geometry,
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quantum gravity,
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and cosmological constant,
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DeWitt and,
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gravitons in,
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Hawking and,
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Jacobson and,
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Krasnow and,
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loop quantum gravity,
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Rovelli and,
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Smolin and,
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spin networks and,
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string theory and,
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Woit and,
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quantum physics,
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basic principles of,
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and black holes,
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Bohr and,
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Chandra and,
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and dialectical materialism,
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Dirac and,
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exclusion principle in,
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Feynman and,
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and general relativity,
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Heisenberg and,
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Hoyle and,
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information and predictability in,
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Landau and,
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light in,
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observational evidence for,
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Oppenheimer and,
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Schrödinger and,
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in Soviet Union,
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