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Index
Inflation model 218, 242
Inflation theory 211, 218
Inflaton 218
Inflaton field 211
Information 92, 258, 280
Inheritors, The 23
Integers 63
Intelligence 23, 24
Interference 81, 86, 93, 244
Interference pattern 92, 94
Intermediate Vector Boson 171, 180
Irrational number 65
Isaac Newton 198
Isospin 176
J
James Clerk Maxwell 13, 55, 79,
149
J. J. Thompson 146
John Dalton 83
John Stewart Bell 96
John Wheeler 258
K
Karl Popper 54
Karl Schwarzschild 131
Kepler 51, 52
Kurt Gödel 20, 46, 69
L
Laplace’s demon 275
Lepton number 174, 175
leptons 173, 174
Liar’s Paradox 69, 273
Life is a Dream 6
LIGO 138, 139
Line spectra 151
Logic 26–30, 42, 44, 248, 251, 252
Lord Kelvin 17
Lord Rutherford 7
Lorentz Contraction 110, 113
Lorentz transformations 109, 110,
115
Ludwig Boltzmann 83
Luigi Pirandello 82
M
Magnetic moment 159, 160, 172,
181
Many-body system 45
Many Worlds Interpretation 91
Mass-Energy 243
Mass/energy equivalence 110
Mass/energy relationship 116
Max Born 46, 199, 244, 258
Max Planck 16, 17, 84, 85, 109
Max Tegmark 254
Maxwell 17, 107, 251, 260, 261
Maxwell’s equations 79, 125
Maxwell’s theory 84
Measurement error 44, 45
Meson 168, 173, 175
Milky Way 195, 200, 201, 219
Missing mass 220
Modified Newtonian Dynamics 220
Momentum 88
Monty Hall Problem 91, 275
M-theory 72, 183
Multiple truth doctrines 13
Multiple truths 41
Multiverse 241, 253–255
Muon 113, 169
Murray Gell-mann 175
N
NASA WMAP survey 209
Neanderthal 23
Nebulae 200
Neutrino 169, 174, 175, 182
Neutrons 147, 168
Neutron star 137, 139
Newton 106, 108, 124, 133, 155,
243