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  1. oceanic crust,
    1
  2. oceans,
    see
    seas
  3. oil,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  4. olive,
    1
  5. Ophioglossum vulgatum
    ,
    1
  6. optics,
    1
  7. orang-utans,
    1
  8. orbitals,
    1
  9. organelles,
    1
    ,
    2
  10. Ørsted, Hans Christian,
    1
  11. outbreeding,
    1
  12. ovaries,
    1
    ,
    2
  13. ovum/ova,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 13
  14. oxidation,
    1
    n. 4
  15. oxygen,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    nn. 2, 3, 4;
    8
    n. 4
  16. ozone,
    1
  1. p
    -type material,
    1
  2. Pacific Ocean,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  3. palaeoanthropology,
    1
  4. panspermia,
    1
    n. 2
  5. parabola,
    1
    n. 10
  6. parasites,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 9
  7. Paramecium
    ,
    1
  8. Paris,
    1
  9. particle accelerators,
    1
  10. particle physics,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  11. particles, subatomic,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ;
    1. see also
      antiparticles, leptons, muons, quarks, taus
  12. Pauli Exclusion Principle,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 19,
    4
    n. 11,
    5
    n. 15
  13. pea plants,
    1
    ,
    2
  14. peacock,
    1
    n. 1
  15. pelvis,
    1
  16. Penrose, Roger,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 10
  17. personality,
    1
  18. pharmaceutical industry,
    1
  19. philosophy,
    1
    ,
    2
  20. phosphorus,
    1
  21. photino,
    1
  22. photography,
    1
    n. 6
  23. photolithography,
    1
  24. photons,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    n. 12,
    16
    n. 5,
    17
    n. 10,
    18
    n. 8,
    19
    n. 14;
    1. virtual,
      1
      n. 11
  25. photoresistance,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 11
  26. photosynthesis,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 6;
    1. artificial,
      1
  27. physics and physicists,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    ,
    16
    ,
    17
    ,
    18
    ,
    19
    ,
    20
    ,
    21
    ,
    22
    ,
    23
    ,
    24
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    25
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    26
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    27
    ,
    28
    ,
    29
    ,
    30
    ,
    31
    ,
    32
    , 
    33
    ,
    34
    ,
    35
    ,
    36
    ,
    37
    ,
    38
    ,
    39
    ,
    40
    ,
    41
    n. 5,
    42
    n. 10,
    43
    n. 10,
    44
    n. 2,
    45
    n. 5,
    46
    n. 2,
    47
    n. 7,
    48
    n. 5;
    1. see also
      particle physics
  29. physics, laws of,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    n. 6,
    10
    n. 8,
    11
    n. 9
  30. Picasso, Pablo,
    1
  31. pigs,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  32. Pink Floyd,
    1
    ,
    2
  33. Pinker, Steven,
    1
  34. Pisa, Tower of,
    1
  35. piston,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 5,
    4
    n. 8,
    5
    n. 14
  36. pit viper,
    1
  37. Planck’s constant,
    1
    n. 9
  38. planetesimals,
    1
    n. 5
  39. planets,
    1
    ;
    1. formation,
      1
      n. 5;
    2. orbits of,
      1
      ,
      2
      , n. 18;
    3. shape,
      1
      n. 2
  40. plants,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    n. 2
    supra
    ;
    1. poisons,
      1
      ;
    2. reproduction,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ;
    3. see also
      farming
  41. plate tectonics,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 7
  42. plutonium,
    1
    ,
    2
  43. Polanyi, Karl,
    1
    ;
    1. The Great Transformation
      ,
      1
  44. Polaris,
    1
    n. 17
  45. politics,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  46. pollen,
    1
    n. 11
  47. pollution,
    1
  48. population growth,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  49. potassium,
    1
    ,
    2
  50. poverty,
    1
  51. power stations,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    n. 17;
    1. see also
      nuclear power
  52. precession,
    1
    n. 17
  53. predictability,
    1
  54. pre-evolution,
    1
  55. pregnancy,
    1
  56. pressure,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    n. 11;
    1. see also
      air: pressure
  57. primates,
    1
    ,
    2
  58. Principe,
    1
  59. Prisoner, The
    ,
    1
  60. privatisation,
    1
    n. 2
  61. Proceedings of the Natural History in Brünn
    , profit,
    see
    capitalism: profit
  62. prokaryotes,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    n. 10;
    1. see also Thiomargarita namibiensis
  63. protectionism,
    1
  64. proteins,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    n. 5;
    12
    n. 10;
    1. broken,
      1
      ;
    2. complexes,
      1
      ;
    3. expression,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ;
    4. machinery,
      1
      ;
    5. modification,
      1
      ;
    6. and RNA,
      1
      n. 4;
    7. shape change,
      1
      n. 7;
    8. structure,
      1
      ;
    9. transporter proteins,
      1
      ;
    10. see also
      histones, ion channels, MC1R, tubulin
  65. protons,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    nn. 6, 7;
    8
    n. 2,
    9
    n. 3,
    10
    n. 7;
    1. positive electric charge,
      1
      ,
      2
  66. protozoans,
    1
  67. Prout, William,
    1
  68. PSR B1913+16 (binary pulsar),
    1
  69. public services,
    1
    n. 2
  70. Publius Scipio,
    1
  71. Pugh, Emerson M.,
    1
  72. pulley,
    1
  73. pulsars,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 3;
    1. see also
      PSR B1913+16
  74. PVC,
    1
    n. 17
  75. Pyramids,
    1
    ,
    2
    n. 17
  1. quantum electrodynamics,
    1
  2. quantum fluctuations,
    1
  3. quantum numbers,
    1
    ,
    2
  4. quantum spin,
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    1. see also
      angular momentum
  5. quantum theory,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    n. 3,
    10
    n. 11,
    11
    nn. 10, 12;
    12
    n. 13,
    13
    n. 5;
    1. computation,
      1
      ;
    2. unpredictability,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      n. 5;
    3. probability,
      1
      ,
      2
  6. quantum waves,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    n. 6,
    6
    n. 8;
    1. see also
      orbitals, waves: interference, waves: superposition
  7. quantum weirdness,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  8. quarks,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    n. 10;
    1. bottom-quarks,
      1
      ;
    2. charm-quarks,
      1
      ;
    3. down-quarks,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    4. indistinguishability,
      1
      ;
    5. strange-quarks,
      1
      ;
    6. top-quarks,
      1
      ;
    7. up-quarks,
      1
      ,
      2
      ;
    8. see also
      anti-quarks
  9. quasars,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  10. Queen Mary, University of London,
    1
    n. 6

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