For the Love of Physics (48 page)

gold,
6
–7,
151

Gold, Thomas,
225

Goudsmit, Samuel,
215

grand unified theory,
167

gravitational acceleration,
40
–43,
46
–47

gravitational constant,
284

gravitational potential energy,
246
,
256
–57,
258

astronomy and,
172
–73,
174

kinetic energy and,
171
–72

of X-ray bursts,
256
–57,
258

gravitational redshift,
227
,
232
–33

gravity,
24
,
39
,
45
,
55
–58,
167
,
171
,
270

artificial,
55
–58

centripetal force and,
56
–57

free fall and,
47
–48

hydrostatic pressure and,
71
–73

spacetime and,
226
–27

of stars,
218

weight and,
41

see also
universal law of gravitation

gravity well,
226
,
227
–28

Gray, Stephen,
128
–29

Great Wall of galaxies,
5

Greece, ancient,
115
,
126
,
150

Greene, Brian,
23

greenhouse gases,
164
–65,
183
,
186

Greenpeace International,
182

Green Stripe, The
(Matisse),
267

Gregory, Frederick,
155

Grindlay, Josh,
248
,
250
,
255
,
257

guitar,
112
,
113
,
119

Gursky, Herb,
195
,
216

GX 1+4 (X-ray source),
201
,
244

GX 301-2 (X-ray source),
201

GX 304-1 (X-ray source),
201

half-life,
7
,
183

Hamilton, Andrew,
233

Hankin, Markos,
100
,
162

harmonics:

resonance and,
111
,
114
–16

in stringed instruments,
114
–15

of tuning fork,
115
–16

harp,
112

Harvard University,
26
–27

Hawking, Stephen,
230
,
242

Hawking radiation,
231

Haymes, Bob,
200

HDE 226868 (supergiant star),
240
–41

heat,
169

of body,
176
–77,
179

as form of energy,
174
–75

in nuclear power plant,
184

of stars,
218
–19

Heise, John,
248

Heisenberg, Werner,
268
–69

helium,
7
,
183
,
256

in core-collapse supernova,
218
–19

in X-ray ballooning,
203

Henderson, Thomas,
30
,
236

Hercules (constellation),
196
,
243

hertz,
104

Hertzsprung, Ejnar,
33

Her X-1 (X-ray source),
196
,
243

Hewish, Antony,
32
n
,
225

Hipparcos (High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite),
31

Hoffman, Jeffrey,
254
–55

Holocaust,
11
–13

homopolar motor,
161

Hooke, Robert,
126

Hubble, Edwin,
33
,
34
–36

Hubble’s constant,
35
–36

Hubble’s law,
35

Hubble Space Telescope,
187
–88,
199
,
222
,
243

Hubble Ultra Deep Field,
18
,
260

Hulsizer, Robert,
xiv
–xv

Humboldt, Alexander von,
236

Huygens, Christian,
126

hybrid cars,
170
,
179

Hydrodynamica
(Bernoulli),
73

hydrogen,
6
,
151
,
238
,
251
,
256

absorption lines of,
238

in core-collapse supernova,
218
–19

in nuclear fusion,
186
–87

in X-ray binary system,
246

hydrostatic pressure,
65
–73

gravity and,
71
–73

trees and,
72
–73

Ibn al-Haytham,
79

ice,
61

IceCube (telescope),
190

India,
150
,
185

induction lightning,
143

inertia, law of,
38
–39

infrared radiation,
104
,
176
–77,
190
,
192
–93,
232

insulators,
128
–29,
131
–32,
136

interference (diffraction),
95
–96

intergalactic medium (plasma),
see
plasma

International Energy Agency,
182

Internet,
x

interplanetary plasma,
see
solar wind

ions,
40
,
131
,
139

electric current and,
131

Iran,
183
,
184
–85

iron,
150
–51

in Earth’s core,
152
–53

in star cores,
219

isotopes,
6
–7,
8

iTunes U,
x

James I, King of England,
70

Jansky, Karl,
190

Jencks, Charles,
266

jet stream,
204
–5

Jews,
11
–12

Johnson, B. C.,
74

Joss, Paul,
256

Joule, James,
174
–75

joule (unit of energy),
137
,
174
,
175
–76

“Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole” (film series),
233

JR-Maglev train,
164

Judd, Donald,
266

Jupiter (planet),
49
–50,
223
–24,
279
,
281
,
282

moons of,
189

Jupiter missile,
17

Kandinsky, Wassily,
268

Kangaroo Jack,
210
–11

Kaufman, Susan,
xiii
,
78
,
88
,
99
,
173
–74,
202

Kenya,
242

Kepler, Johannes,
51
,
126
,
189
,
190
,
281

Kepler’s laws,
190

kilocalorie,
177

kinetic energy (KE),
154
,
170
,
173
,
176
,
179
,
221
,
246

gravitational potential energy and,
171
–72

Kodak,
205

Koolhaas, Rem,
266

Kosmos 428 satellite,
253

Lagrangian point,
244

Land, Edwin,
92

large extra dimensions, theory of,
229
–30

Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
231
,
260

and creation of black holes,
229
–30

Large Magellanic Cloud,
222
–23

Lawrence, Andy,
195

Leavitt, Henrietta Swan,
31
–32

Leeb, Steven,
xiv

Leibniz, Gottfried,
126

Levitron,
164

Lewin, Emanuel “Chuck,”
xii
,
xv
,
16
,
186