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Index
A
absolute zero 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 48, 52, 53, 81
Adams, John Couch 173
adiabatic demagnetization 44, 45
Adleman, Leonard 252
AIDS 135, 294
air resistance 194, 269
aliens 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 103, 115, 120, 182, 237, 328, 329
Allen, Roger 3
Alpha Centauri 9, 66, 182, 207, 208, 209, 230
Alvarez, Luis 303, 304
Alvarez, Walter 303, 304
Amalthea 165, 167, 168, 185
amino acids 10, 127, 137
Ampère, André Marie 46
anaerobic life-forms 167
analytical engine 247
anchored satellite 215
Anderson, Philip 22, 143
antibiotics 1, 147
antimatter rockets 192, 202
antiproton 36, 202, 203, 204
archaic life 140
argon 43, 57, 103
Ariel 172, 173, 175, 187, 188
Arp, Halton 322
Arrhenius, Svante August 316
Artificial Intelligence 261, 312
Artificial Life 16, 247, 264, 266
artificial satellites 2
Asaph Hall 13, 161
Asteroid Belt 162, 163, 230
astrology 328
atomic number 42, 43, 57, 102, 104
atoms 21, 22, 24, 25, 47, 48, 50, 59, 61, 79, 80, 81,
82, 85, 89, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 198, 238, 239, 250, 263, 281, 282, 309,
314, 319, 320
automobile 2, 133, 248, 340
B
Babbage, Charles 247, 258
Baen, Jim v
Bandwagoner 15, 17
Bard, the 15
Bards 15, 16
basic computational unit 314
beanstalks 192, 215, 217, 219, 220, 228
Bear, Greg 264
Becquerel, Henri 22
Bednorz, Georg 52
bifurcation 273
Big Bang 71, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 98, 322, 323, 324, 325
Big Crunch 85, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96, 99
biological computers 251, 258, 265
black hole(s) 1, 34, 38, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 78, 85, 92, 93, 100, 244, 285
Bohr, Niels 24, 27, 311
boiling under reduced pressure 39, 40
Bose-Einstein statistics 50
bosons 50, 51, 53
bradyons 242, 243
Brin, David 73
Broglie, Louis de 24
brown dwarf 180
buckyballs 118, 119
Burbidge, Geoffrey 322
Bussard Ramjet 192, 205, 209, 210, 211, 212
C
Cairns-Smith, A.G. 139
Callisto 165, 167, 168, 171, 185, 228
caloric value 107
canals of Mars 159, 169, 171
Capek, Karel 260
carbon cycle 62
Casimir Effect 213
CAT scans 1
central dogma of molecular biology 127
Chandrasekhar's limit 66
channeling 328
chaos 38, 267, 268, 277, 281, 283, 285, 347
chaos theory 267, 268, 270, 272, 273, 285, 286
chemical propulsion 192
chemical rockets 191, 192, 196, 197, 198
chemosynthesis 139
chromosomes 125, 140, 141, 251
circadian rhythms 157
clairvoyance 328
Clarke, Arthur 213, 214, 325, 341
Clays 139
Clement, Hal 121, 184
Clementine spacecraft 158
clones 124
closed shells 103
Cocconi, Giuseppe 233, 348
codons 127
cold fusion 318, 321, 322
collapsing the wave function 27
cometary reservoir 177
communication over interstellar distances 232
complementary string 254, 255, 257
computer science 21, 312
continuous creation 322, 325
continuous fusion process 210
Conway, John Horton 265
cosmic background radiation 81, 235
cosmological constant 79, 96, 97
couplets 51
critical density 85, 86, 89
cryovolcanoes 176
curvature of space 33, 338
cyborgs 295
D
dark companion 178, 183
dark matter 85
Darwin, Charles 14, 61, 269
Darwin, Erasmus 14
Davy, Humphrey 39
Dawkins, Richard 128, 129, 143, 305
death rays 290
Deimos 13, 161
deoxyribonucleic acid 123
DEUCE 249
deuterium 109, 200, 201, 319, 324
dinosaurs 138, 241, 302, 303, 304, 305
Dione 169, 186, 187
Dirac, Paul 25
dirty snowball 178
diseases from space 315, 347
distant planets 179
divination 328
DNA 1, 10, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 133, 134, 135,
136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 240, 251, 252,
253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 265, 266, 293, 347
double helix 124, 125, 126, 135, 140, 254, 310, 350
dowsing 328
Drake Equation 234
Drake, Frank 234, 236, 246
Drexler, Eric 263
dualism 22
dust pools 158
dwarf stars 63, 92, 94, 99, 100
dynamic beanstalks 192, 219, 220, 221
Dyson, Freeman 36, 92, 223, 234
E
Earth-crossing asteroids 162
Eckart, Carl 25
Eddington, Arthur 22
Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt 177
effective jet velocity 195
Einstein, Albert 23, 67, 79, 244, 270
EJV 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 204, 211
EK Belt 177
electrical conduction 48
electromagnetic force 35, 197, 271
electron 22, 26, 28, 34, 35, 36, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 80, 82,
83, 89, 93, 98, 99, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110,
111, 114, 115, 200, 202, 210, 249, 250, 259, 263, 290,
291, 292, 297
electron pairing 51
electron shells 102, 292
electron spin 26, 28
electron volt 110, 249, 250
Enceladus 169, 186, 187
End of Science 339, 340, 347
energy content 85, 107
ENIAC 248
"entangled" particle pairs 29
enzymatic engine 116, 117
enzymes 116, 135
epidemics 316
ergosphere 69, 70
escape velocity 68, 159, 166, 179, 180, 219
eschaton 90, 349
Europa 165, 167, 171, 185
event horizon 68, 69, 73, 348
Everett, Hugh 27
excited state 290, 291
exoskeletons 10
expansion forever 91
expansion of the universe 1, 32, 81, 85, 86, 96, 342
extinction of the dinosaurs 138
F
faith healing 328
false futures 223
faster-than-light 9, 29, 72, 230, 241
faster-than-light transportation 29
Feigenbaum Number 267, 277, 347
Feinberg, Gerald 242
Fermi Paradox 237
Fermi-Dirac statistics 49
fermions 49, 50
Feynman, Richard 36, 212, 258, 263, 341
fifth force 35
finite state automata 1
Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction 31
Fleischmann, Martin 319
forbidden transition 290, 291
Forward, Robert 208, 213
Fowler, William 63
Fracastoro, Girolamo 317
fractal dimension 283
fractals 279, 280, 283
Frankenstein 13, 14, 15, 349
Franklin, Ben 46
free energy 96, 299, 325
free radicals 144
FTL 9
fullerenes 117, 118, 119, 120
fundamental equation of rocketry 196
future war 287
G
Gaia theory 157
galactic super-clusters 324
galaxies 34, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 85, 86, 87, 91, 96,
97, 140, 203, 232, 322, 323, 324
Galilean satellites 165, 167, 185
game theory 16
Gamow, George 80
Ganymede 165, 167, 171, 185
Gauss, Carl Friedrich 231
Gell-Mann, Murray 36
general theory of relativity 33, 79, 244
genetic code 124, 139, 141, 251, 294
genetic engineering 1
genome 1, 139, 251, 293, 295
genome mapping 1, 251, 295
geostationary orbit 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 225
geostationary satellite 214
geosynchronous satellite 214
germ theory of disease 317
Glaser, Peter 224
global altruism 307
Golding, William 306
Gould, Stephen Jay 305
gravitational collapse 65
gravitational contraction 60
gravitational force 35, 67, 87, 179, 183, 220
gravitational radius 68, 69
gravity swingbys 192, 205, 207
Great Dark Spot 174
Great Red Spot 164, 166, 169, 174
Great White Spot 170
ground state 213, 290, 291, 292, 297, 298, 299
Guillaume, Charles 323
H
Haldane, J.B.S. 10, 97
Hawking radiative process 71
heavenly funicular 215
Heisenberg, Werner 24
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle 26
helium II 43, 44
helium-3 200, 201
Helmholtz, Hermann von 60
Herschel, William 75, 171
hexing 328
HIV 135
holography 1
Hoyle, Fred 63, 79, 153, 315, 322
Hubble Space Telescope 170
human thought 261, 313, 314
Hutton, James 60, 306
hydroxyl radical 235, 236
Hyperion 169, 186, 187
I
Iapetus 169, 171, 186, 187
immortality 140, 145, 349
immune system 146, 147, 148
Importers 15, 16
Independence Day 8, 328
Indian rope trick 219, 220
inflationary phase 83
information theory 1
inorganic crystals 139
International Space Station 223, 224, 226
Internet 2, 3
interstellar travel 204, 229
introns 127
inverse perturbations 173
Invisible Man 12, 288, 350
Io 165, 166, 167, 185
ion rockets 191, 198
ionization potential 110, 111
island of stability 105
isomers 113
isotopes 109
iterated functions 273, 277, 284
J
Jet Propulsion Lab 3
Joule, James Prescott 40
Jupiter 6, 154, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172,
174, 176, 179, 180, 181, 183, 185, 190, 201, 205, 207, 222,
228, 235
K
K/T extinction 303, 305
Kelvin 40, 45, 50, 71, 174, 176, 235, 323
kernel 69, 70, 71, 73, 244
Kidjel Ratio 329, 330
kinematic relativity 85
Kress, Nancy v, 149
krypton 43, 57, 103
Kuiper Belt 177
L
L-5 colonies 222, 223, 224
Lagrange, Joseph Louis 222
Lagrange points 222
laser beam propulsion 192, 205, 208
laser-powered rockets 192, 205, 211
lasers 1, 101, 120, 211, 291, 292
latent heat of liquefaction 39
launch loops 192, 220, 221
levitation 55, 328
librations 157
life elsewhere 138
life in the far future 93
life-forms on Mars 6, 342
light-years 8, 9, 18, 27, 29, 75, 77, 78, 178, 184, 200, 209,
230, 231, 237, 241
linear accelerators 198
load-bearing cable 217
long-period comets 163, 177
Lord Kelvin 40, 60, 61
Lorentz contraction 31
Lovelock, James 121, 157, 305
Lowell, Percival 159, 169
Lucian of Samosata 12
Lunar Prospector spacecraft 158
Lunik III 158
M
mad cow disease 136
magic numbers 104, 105
magnetic levitation 55
main sequence 62
major histocompatibility complex 294
Mandelbrot Set 279, 281, 282, 283
many-worlds theory 133
Marco Polo 12
Margulis, Lynn 157, 307
Mars atmosphere 160
Mars Sampler spacecraft 140
mass drivers 191, 197, 198
mass-luminosity law 62
matter/antimatter annihilation 203
Mayr, Ernst 22
Meissner Effect 55
Mendeleyev, Dmitri 42
Mercury (planet) 151, 152, 153, 180, 181, 208, 228
mercury (element) 57, 111
Messier Catalog 76
meteorology 21
microtubules 314, 315
microwave region 234, 235, 323
Milky Way 75, 76
Mimas 169, 171, 186, 187
Minsky, Marvin 21, 262, 312, 313, 348
Miranda 173, 187, 188, 348
mirrormatter 202
missing matter 84, 86, 87, 91, 322
mitochondria 125
mixed states 26, 27, 259
Moon 1, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 138, 139, 151, 152, 156, 157,
158, 159, 165, 166, 167, 171, 173, 176, 177, 179, 186,
187, 189, 194, 218, 222, 224, 229, 230, 305, 349
Moravec, Hans 219, 262
Morrison, Philip 233, 236
Moseley, Henry 42
Müller, Alex 52
muon 36, 49, 107, 202, 204
muonium 107, 122
mutation 126, 129, 130, 131, 132
mystery of sex 128
N
N-body problem 183
nanotechnology 119, 247, 263, 264, 265
National Institutes of Health 3
natural selection 129, 131, 269, 270
Nemesis 178
neon 43, 57, 63, 64, 65, 103
Neptune 168, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 189, 200, 201, 208,
228
Nereid 175, 189
neurons 239, 251, 314
neutral hydrogen 110, 210, 235
neutrino 36, 49, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 98, 99, 202, 204
neutron 34, 35, 36, 37, 49, 65, 66, 67, 72, 80, 82, 83, 92,
93, 100, 104, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 201, 207, 250, 263, 299,
320, 321
neutron excess 105
Neutron star 65, 66, 67, 72, 92, 93, 100, 207, 250
New Age 3, 329
Newton, Isaac 38, 183, 342
Niven, Larry 73, 121, 348
noble gases 43, 103
non-zero cosmological constant 97
nonlocality of the universe 28
nonprescription drugs 144
nonsynchronous skyhook 219
nuclear bombs 1
nuclear energy 1
nuclear laser 297, 299
nuclear reactor rockets 191, 198, 199
nuclear Test Ban Treaty 200
nuclear war 287, 296, 304, 308
nuclear winter 304
nucleic acids 123
nucleus 23, 34, 35, 36, 42, 62, 83, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106,
107, 109, 111, 114, 124, 125, 201, 210, 290, 293, 297,
298, 299
O
Oberon 172, 173, 187, 188
Oersted, Hans Christian 46
Ohm, Georg Simon 46
one-way membrane 68
O'Neill, Gerard 222
Onnes, Kamerlingh 43, 44, 45, 46, 54
Oort Cloud 177, 178, 316
Oort, Jan 177
open universe 91, 92, 93, 95, 100, 346
orbital tower 215
organ transplants 146
organic chemistry 25, 114
origin of life 133, 137, 138, 346
P
palmistry 328
panspermia 10, 316
parallel operation 250, 259
parsecs 18
Pathfinder lander 160
pathological curves 283
Pauli Exclusion Principle 49, 50
Pauli, Wolfgang 36
Pauling, Linus 25, 309, 310, 311
pendulum 273, 280, 281, 284, 285
Penrose, Roger 21, 69, 266, 312, 348
periodic 42, 104, 178, 181, 273, 284, 285
personal computers 1, 289
personal weapon 292
Phobos 13, 161
Phoebe 169, 170, 186, 187
photoelectric effect 23, 343
photon rockets 192, 204
photons 23, 24, 36, 50, 288
physics 1, 11, 21, 23, 37, 39, 45, 51, 59, 60, 72, 75, 79,
87, 91, 101, 103, 111, 123, 184, 198, 203, 204, 205, 209, 212,
230, 242, 244, 247, 249, 263, 278, 281, 295, 303, 313,
315, 320, 322, 323, 331, 339, 340, 341, 346, 347, 349
Pilkington, Ace FM-v
pions 36, 37, 202, 203, 204
Planck length 38, 244
Planck, Max 23, 340
Planck time 83, 84
Planck's constant 23, 24, 249
Planet X 177
plasma cosmology 323, 324, 325
plate tectonics 156, 157
Pluto 151, 164, 176, 177, 228, 229
Pohl, Frederik 27, 73, 348
Pons, Stanley 320
positron 34, 35, 82, 89, 93, 98, 99, 107, 202
prescience 328
presynaptic vesicular grid 314
Prigogine, Ilya 22
primordial methane 157
prion protein 136
prions 16, 133, 137
problem of decoherence 260
Project Cyclops 236
Project Daedalus 200, 201
Project Orion 199, 200
properties of materials 21
proton decay 92, 93
protons 24, 34, 35, 37, 42, 49, 65, 82, 92, 104, 105, 106,
109, 111, 202, 299
Proxima Centauri 182
psychics 328
psychokinesis 328
pulsar 65, 236
pulsed fission rockets 191, 199
Q
quanta 23, 24
quantum chromodynamics 36, 37, 38
quantum computers 258, 259, 262
quantum computing 251
quantum electrodynamics 37, 38
quantum indeterminacy 25, 26, 27
quantum paradoxes 25
quantum teleportation 27, 31, 33, 241, 244, 346
quantum theory 1, 5, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 38,
40, 48, 49, 70, 103, 212, 258, 259, 268, 309, 313, 342
quark(s) 16, 19, 36, 37, 72, 83, 106
quasars 16, 72, 78, 322
quasi-stellar radio source 78
R
R.U.R. 260
radio noise 165
radioactivity 18, 22, 23, 25, 129, 297, 299, 304
radon 42, 43, 57, 103
Ram Augmented Interstellar Rocket (RAIR) 192, 205, 212
reaction mass 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 203,
205, 210, 211, 213
recession of the galaxies 77, 322, 323
rectenna 224
red giant 66, 88, 99, 100
redshift-distance correlation 322
refractive index 12, 288
regolith 161
reincarnation 328
relativity 1, 23, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 67, 342, 346
resistance 18, 30, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 194, 269, 294
resonance lock 152
resonances 299
retroviruses 1, 16, 135
Rhea 169, 186, 187
ribonucleic acid 126
ribosomes 127, 135
ribozymes 135
Rigel 7, 8, 9, 11, 182, 183
ring singularity 70, 244
ring system 168
rings of Saturn 168, 170, 172
RNA 10, 126, 127, 133, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140
Robinson, Kim Stanley 160, 348
robots 247, 260, 262, 296, 346
rocket spaceships 191, 192, 204
rocketless spaceships 191
Röntgen, Wilhelm 22
room-temperature superconductors 57
rotating beanstalk 219
Russell, Bertrand 30, 315
Rutherford, Ernest 23
S
Saturn 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 176, 178,
179, 180, 186, 201, 208, 228
scaling 281, 282, 283
Schrödinger, Erwin 24, 124, 348
Schrödinger's Cat 25, 27, 347
Schwarzschild black hole 67, 69, 70, 73
Schwinger, Julian 36
science fiction 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 25,
27, 35, 38, 69, 72, 84, 86, 88, 101, 102, 105, 107, 110,
115, 116, 121, 123, 133, 143, 145, 151, 153, 159, 162,
173, 176, 179, 192, 195, 197, 209, 213, 216, 229, 230,
238, 239, 248, 260, 262, 265, 286, 288, 290, 295, 328,
329, 331, 340, 343, 344
scientific heresies 301
scrapie 136
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (see: SETI) 230, 237, 238, 347
seer 15, 17
self-regulating organism 305, 307
self-replicating entities 139
sensitive 15, 17
serial operation 250
SETI (see: Search for Extraterrestrial Life) 230, 234, 236, 237,
238, 240, 348
sexual reproduction 128, 130, 132, 133, 140
shadow matter 87
Shelley, Mary 13, 14, 15
SI 195, 196, 197
sick curves 280
sidereal period 154
silico-organic 115
Sirius 182, 183
sister planet 153, 156, 159
skyhook 215, 219
Sojourner 160
solar power satellites 223
solar radiation pressure 208
solar sails 192, 205, 207
solar system 78, 83, 88, 98, 99, 138, 139, 151, 154, 155,
157, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169, 171, 173, 176,
177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 193, 198, 199, 201, 205,
206, 217, 218, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, 235, 292,
316, 342
solid metallic hydrogen 217
solid state physics 1
space colonies 178, 221, 223
space fountain 192, 219
spaceflight 5, 191, 194, 196
spacetime 31, 34, 95, 212, 244
special relativity 29, 30, 31, 241, 242, 342
specific impulse 195
speed of lightness 333, 334, 338
spin state 26, 28, 259
spinning black hole 69, 70, 71
spontaneous emission 235, 290, 291, 292
SPS 224, 225, 226
stars 13, 22, 24, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 75, 76, 77, 78,
79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 92, 93, 94, 99, 100, 101, 118, 172,
178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 190, 203, 207, 209,
229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 240, 243, 246,
295, 319, 323, 328, 331, 345
static universe 79
statistics 49, 50
steady state theory 322
stellar endings 64
stellar nucleosynthesis 63, 64, 81
stellar occultation 175
Stickney 161
stimulated emission 291, 292
stimulated nuclear emission 299
strange attractors 284, 285
strong force 35
subatomic structure 1
super-soldier 295
superconductivity 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 321
supernova 65, 66, 71, 81, 182, 298, 304, 323
supersonic aircraft 1
superstring 16, 37, 38, 87
supersymmetry 83, 86, 87
surface gravity 180, 195
surface of infinite red shift 68, 69
T
tachyons 242, 243, 244
taper factor 215, 216, 217, 219, 228
telepathy 328
telephones 1
teleportation 27, 31, 33, 241, 244, 328, 346
television 1, 101, 235
telomerase 141, 142
telomere 140, 141, 143
temperature 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 80,
81, 82, 83, 84, 92, 94, 106, 108, 115, 116, 117, 139,
155, 156, 160, 170, 174, 176, 180, 198, 199, 200, 201,
210, 217, 235, 306, 319, 320, 321, 323, 326
terrestrial microwave window 235
Tethys 169, 186, 187
Theory of Everything 35, 38, 339, 340
Theory of Relativity 23, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 79, 240, 244,
269, 343, 345, 348
thermalization 323, 324
Thomson, J.J. 22, 34, 47, 342
Thomson, William 40
thought experiment 28
time dilation 30, 33, 202, 240
tissue engineering 145, 147, 148, 149
Titan 6, 167, 169, 170, 171, 186, 187, 228, 349
Titania 172, 173, 187, 188
Tombaugh, Clyde 176
Tomonaga, Sinitiro 36
transistors 1, 260
transmission of electrical power 56
transuranic elements 104, 106, 107
trapping surface 68
Traveling Salesman Problem 252, 258
Triton 175, 176, 189
tubulin dimers 314
Turbulence 278, 279
two-body problem 183
U
ultraviolet light 8, 11
Umbriel 172, 173, 175, 187, 188
uniformitarianism 60
universality 277, 279, 283
unstable solution 276
Uranus 168, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 187, 201, 208, 228,
342
Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh 59
V
vacuum energy 38, 192, 205, 212, 213
vacuum energy drive 192, 205, 212, 213
Vallis Marineris 160
Velikovsky, Immanuel 153
Venus 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 171, 228, 231, 349
Verne, Jules 14, 15
Verrier, Urbain Le 173
Viking Lander 160
viruses 123, 133, 134, 135, 293, 294, 315, 316
viscosity 44
vital force 113
vitalism 113, 115
Vitamin C 144, 308, 309, 310, 311
"Voyage to Laputa" 13
Voyager 2 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175
W
weak force 35
web sites 3
Wheeler, John 27, 68, 70
white dwarf 66, 88, 183
Wickramasinghe, Chandra 315, 347
Wigner, Eugene 26
world-builders 15, 17, 154
wormholes 243, 244
X
X-rays 22, 300
xenon 43, 57, 103
Z
Zweig, George 36
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