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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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