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About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
(Davies), 25, 175
Ackerman, Diane, 90
Addison, Joseph, 109
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
(dir. Richter), 194
Aeschylus, 97
afterlife, 108
Albert, Stuart, 131
Alexander the Great, 36
All’s Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare), 21
Amis, Martin, 143
amphibians, 183
Andromeda galaxy, 85–86, 214
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
(Barrow and Tipler), 219, 212–14, 223, 224–25
Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare), 109
Aphrodite, 19
architecture, 79–80
Aristotle, 202
Armageddon, 216
Arnold, Matthew, 25–26
artificial intelligence, 205–6
arts, time-based, 136–39.
See also specific arts;
writers
Associated Press, 64
athletes, 122
attoseconds, 53
Auden, W.H., 163
August (month), 128, 129–30
Augustine (of Hippo), Saint, 7, 113, 174
Augustus Caesar, 127–28
Avni-Babad, Dinah, 110
Aymara people, 93–94
Babylonians, 37
Back to the Future
(dir. Zemeckis), 194
bacteria, 162
Barnes, Ernest, 107–8
Barrow, John D., 212–14, 219, 223, 224–25
Batman
(dir. Burton), 79
Bede (the Venerable), Saint, 43
Beerbohm, Max, 169
Bell, Alexander Graham, 65
Bell Laboratories, 172–73
Benjamin, Walter, 10
Bernal, J. D., 219
Big Bang, 172, 173
big crunch, 220, 221, 225
black holes, 100–101, 178, 188–89, 202
and end of universe, 179, 223, 224
Blair, David, 53
body time, 130
Borges, Jorge Luis, 30
brain, 82–83, 94, 116, 123, 130–31, 136.
See also
mind; thought
Brain, Marshall, 205
bristlecone pines, 161
bullet motion, 72
Burroughs, William S., 118–19
Burton, Tim, 79
butterfly effect, 207–8
calendars, 35–36, 37, 210
Calment, Jeanne, 159
Carboniferous period, 150, 183
Caribbean, 106
Carrefour de l’opéra
(dir. Méliès), 70
cars, 195–96
Cayo Largo (Cuba), 90, 91, 104–6
Cenozoic era, 55, 184
cerebellum, 123
Cézanne, Paul, 12
Chamberlain, Neville, 200
chaos theory, 207–8
Cherenkov radiation, 100
China, 39
Christianity, 39, 108, 216
chronometer, 46
chronons, 11
Chronos, 21–22.
See also
Cronos
cinema, 77.
See also
motion pictures
cinematography, 72.
See also
motion pictures
circadian rhythms, 130
cities, 79–80
Clarke, Arthur C., 204–6
clepsydra, 38
clocks, 38, 39–41, 43–44, 50–52, 64
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(dir. Spielberg), 8
coastlines, 49–50
coelacanth, 163
computers, 72, 217–18.
See also
Internet Concorde, 78
Confessions
(Augustine), 113
conservation of information, law of, 178–79
continental drift, 157, 182
Co-ordinated Universal Time, 51
Correggio, Antonio, 127
cortex (cerebral), 123
crinoids, 149, 151, 163
Cronos, 18–20, 21.
See also
Chronos
cycles
lunar, 33, 35
retail, 210
of time, 140–42
cyclotrons, 142
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 59
Darwin, Charles, 159
dates (calendar), 95
Davenport Road (Toronto), 180–81
Davies, Paul, 25, 101, 104, 175
daylight saving time, 209
days, 36, 37
A Defence of Poetry
(Shelley), 203
Degas, Edgar, 62
Devonian period, 149–50
Dickson, William, 67
dinosaurs, 147, 148, 150
The Discovery of the Future
(Wells), 210
La divina commedia
(Dante), 94
Don Valley Brick Works, 156–57
Donne, John, 109
doomsday, 216–24
dopamine, 130
D’ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons nous?
(Gauguin), 169–70
dream time, 135–36
du Maurier, Daphne, 193
Dunstable Priory (England), 40
Dutch language, 93
Dyson, Freeman, 214–15, 221
Dyson spheres, 221–22
earth (planet), 51–52, 129
Eccles, John C., 83
Edison, Thomas, 67
Edwards, Bradley C., 205
Egypt (ancient), 36, 37–38
Einstein, Albert, 98, 99, 201, 204.
See also
relativity, theory of
and relativity, 8, 88, 103
electrons, 100
Elliott, Lang, 63
English language, 94–95
entelechy, 202–3
Erichsen, J. E., 203
Ernemann Company, 71
escapement, 40
eternity, 106–10
eurypterids, 150
Falkland Islands war, 81–83
Father Time, 22–23
femtoseconds, 52–53
Fermi, Enrico, 204
Finkelstein, David, 11
Finney, Jack, 193
Fitzgerald, Edward, 15
flywheels, 108
Follini, Stefania, 131–32
fossils, 147, 149, 150–51, 152–54, 156–57 living, 159–63
A Free Man’s Worship and Other Essays
(Russell), 20
future, 10, 89–90, 200–201, 207.
See also
predictions
The Future
(Arnold), 25–26
Future Force Warrior Project (U.S. Army), 206
Gaia, 18–19
galaxies, 85–86, 171, 214
Gamow, George, 172
Gauguin, Paul, 169–70
The Gay Science
(Nietzsche), 140–41
German language, 93
glacial ages, 184–85, 215
Glenn Gould Hereafter
(dir. Monsaingeon), 138
glyptodon, 184
Gödel, Kurt, 207
gold, 100
Gold, Thomas, 42, 143
Goldberg Variations
(Bach), 138–39
Gould, Glenn, 138–39
Goya, Francisco, 19–20
grammar, 94–95
grandmother paradox, 186
gravitational waves, 53
gravity, 9, 100–101, 189
The Great Train Robbery
(dir. Porter), 68
Greece (ancient), 36, 93
Greenwich Observatory, 46
Gregory XIII, Pope, 37
Greiner, Helen, 205
Grim Reaper, 22
The Gylfaginning
, 160, 216
Hamilton, George, 79
Hammer of the North
(Magnusson), 216
Harrison, John, 45, 46
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(Rowling), 193
Hawking, Stephen, 178, 187
Hayes, Rutherford B., 63
heat death, 220, 221, 222
Hippocrates, 136
Holocene epoch, 55
Hopi people, 94
hourglasses, 42–43
hours, 37–38, 39–43
The House on the Strand
(du Maurier), 193
Hubble, Edwin, 171–72
Hubble Space Telescope, 86
humans
lifespan, 159
as superbeings (post-human), 219, 222–23
universe and, 212–14
Huxley, Aldous, 20
Huygens, Christiaan, 43–44
ice (glacial) ages, 184–85, 215
immortality, 222–23
Infinite in All Directions
(Dyson), 214–15
infinity, 222
insects, 115
intelligence, artificial, 205–6
Internet, 7, 206
Iroquois, Lake, 180–81
Ishango bone, 35
Islam, 35
Italian language, 94
Jacobson, Theodore, 201–2
James, William, 12
Johnson, Samuel, 5
Judaism, 36
Julius Caesar, 37
Jupiter (god), 18, 19
Jupiter (planet), 13
Kant, Immanuel, 173–74
Kelvin, Lord, 204
kinetoscope, 71
King’s holly, 161–62
Kingsley, Charles, 65
Koyaanisqatsi
(dir. Reggio), 71
Kubrick, Stanley, 204
Kurosawa, Akira, 72
Kurzweil, Ray, 203, 206
Lamb, Charles, 114
Language, Thought and Reality
(Whorf), 94
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de, 207
The Last Three Minutes
(Davies), 101
Latin language, 93
latitude, 46
Lawrence, D. H., 13
Lemaître, Georges, 172
Levine, Martin, 100
Libet, Benjamin, 82–83
lifespan, 159–62
light, 97–98, 103–4
speed of, 8–9, 44, 98–100, 104
from stars, 85–86
light cones, 88–89, 140
limestone, 151, 152–53, 156–57, 163, 181–82
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Lewis), 51
longitude, 46
Lorenz, Edward, 207
love, 109–10
Lucretius, 14
Lumière, Louis and Auguste, 67–68
lunar cycles, 33, 35
Lyons, Harold, 51
Magnusson, Magnus, 216
mammals, 116, 184
Mandelbrot, Benoît, 49–50
Marcus Aurelius, 25, 113
Marey, Étienne-Jules, 71
Marrison, Warren A., 50–51
Marshak, Alexander, 35
Marvell, Andrew, 20
Marya
(Oates), 26
The Matrix
(dir. A. & L. Wachowski), 72
Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, 136
media time, 75, 76, 77, 80.
See also specific media
Meditations
(Marcus Aurelius), 25, 113
megathurium, 184
Méliès, Georges, 68, 70
memory, 132–35
Metamorphoses
(Ovid), 19
Michelsen, Albert, 204
microseconds, 50
Milky Way, 214
mind, 123.
See also
brain; thought; unconscious
Mind Children
(Moravec), 217–18
Minkowski, Hermann, 87–88
minutes, 43–44
monasteries, 39–40
Monsaingeon, Bruno, 138
months, 35, 37.
See also
August
Moravec, Hans, 206, 217–18, 220–21
Morris, Michael, 189
Morse, Samuel, 63
motion pictures, 66–68
Mount Wilson Observatory, 171
Musger, August, 71
music, 138
Muybridge, Eadweard, 59–62, 66
nanoseconds, 51
nanotechnology, 203, 206
A Natural History of Love
(Ackerman), 90
Neoproterozoic eon, 183
neurons, 115–16
“A New Refutation of Time” (Borges), 30
New York World’s Fair (1939), 168–69
newspapers, 64
Niagara Escarpment, 181–82
Niagara Falls, 148–49, 153
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 140–42
Norse peoples, 93, 216–17
nostalgia, 77–79
Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich, 25, 186, 188, 189
“now,” 54–56
nuclear energy, 204
nundinum
, 36
Núñez, Rafael, 93–94
Oates, Joyce Carol, 26
oceans, 163
Ordovician period, 157
Ott, John, 70
Ovid, 19
Paleozoic era, 183
Pantheon, 80
paradoxes, 157–58, 186, 190
Parentini, Renaud, 201–2
Parmenides, 23
Peckinpah, Sam, 72
Penzias, Arno, 172–73
phenakistoscope, 66
phonograph, 65
photography, 59–60, 65.
See also
motion pictures
slow motion, 71–74
time-lapse, 69–71
photons, 103
physicists, 25, 26. See
also
physics physics, 204
laws of, 25, 142–43, 178–79
quantum, 102, 174–75
The Physics of Immortality
(Tipler), 222–23
pines, bristlecone, 161
plants, 115, 160–62, 200–201
plastic surgery, 79
Plutarch, 19
Polaris (star), 85
Pompeii, 185–86
Porter, Edwin S., 68
praxinoscope, 66, 67
predictions, 200, 203–8
present, 10–11
prime meridian, 46
procrastination, 123–24
Prometheus Bound
(Aeschylus), 97
quantum foam, 188–89
quantum particles, 142
quantum physics, 102, 174–75
Quaternary period, 55, 184
Rabelais, François, 38
radiation
background, 172–73
Cherenkov, 100
Hawking, 178, 202, 223
Rasselas
(Johnson), 5
red shift, 171
redwoods, 160
relativity, 8–9, 54
theory of, 88, 186, 187, 192
religion, 35, 108, 216.
See also specific religions
reptiles, 182–83
retro, 77–79
reversibility, principle of, 142–43
Reynaud, Charles-Émile, 66, 67
Rhea (goddess), 19
Richardson, Lewis F., 49
Riefler, Siegmund, 50
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 210
Rimbaud, Arthur, 97
ripples
fossilized, 154
in space-time, 202, 227–29
The River of Time
(Novikov), 25, 188
Robert the Englishman, 40
robots, 203, 205–6
Rodin, Auguste, 62
Roman Empire, 36–37
Rome (city), 79–80
Römer, Ole, 44
routine, 110, 117
Routledge, N. A., 24
Rowling, J. K., 193
Royal Ontario Museum, 150–51
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
(Fitzgerald), 15
Russell, Bertrand, 20
Sagan, Carl, 225
Une saison en enfer
(Rimbaud), 97
Sangamonian era, 156
Saturn (god), 21–22.
See also
Cronos
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
(Goya), 19–20
science, 207.
See also
physics
seasons, 32–33, 183–85
“Seasons” (Huxley), 20
“The Second Coming” (Yeats), 140
seconds, 44, 45–46, 50, 51
The Secrets of Life
(dir. Ott), 70
sequoias, 160
The Seven Samurai
(dir. Kurosawa), 72