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Chapter 1 | The Goal | 1 |
The Search for Meaning | 8 | |
Einstein's Dream | 17 | |
Chapter 2 | Warped Space-Time | 21 |
Curved Space | 26 | |
Einstein and Warped Space-Time | 29 | |
Extreme Warping | 46 | |
Chapter 3 | Early Unified Field Theories | 41 |
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field | 50 | |
Early Attempts at Unification | 61 | |
Einstein's Unified Field Theory | 66 | |
Chapter 4 | Star Death | 73 |
Eddington | 74 | |
The Life Cycle of a Star | 79 | |
Chandrasekhar and the White Dwarfs | 84 | |
Beyond the White Dwarf | 89 | |
Reflection | 95 | |
Chapter 5 | The Ultimate Abyss: The Black Hole | 97 |
Oppenheimer and Continuing Collapse | 100 | |
Collapse of a Star to a Black Hole | 107 | |
Inside a Black Hole | 110 | |
Other Types of Black Holes | 112 | |
Searching for Black Holes | 114 | |
Other Black Hole Candidates | 118 | |
A Realistic Look at the Exotic Possibilities | 120 | |
Where the Theory Breaks Down | 124 | |
The Discovery of Evaporating Black Holes | 126 | |
The Link between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics | 131 | |
Chapter 6 | The Early Universe | 133 |
Discovery of the Expanding Universe | 134 | |
Back to the Big Bang | 154 | |
The Ultimate Singularity | 156 | |
Inflation | 159 | |
The Hadron Era | 159 | |
The Lepton Era | 161 | |
The Radiation Era | 161 | |
The Cosmic Background Radiation | 162 | |
The Galaxy Era | 166 | |
Reflection | 168 | |
Chapter 7 | Cosmological Controversy | 171 |
The Age of the Universe | 174 | |
The Redshift Controversy | 181 | |
Rival Cosmologies | 186 | |
Varying G Cosmologies and Cosmic Numbers | 191 | |
Antimatter and Other Cosmologies | 193 | |
Other Universes | 195 | |
Chapter 8 | The Final Fate of the Universe | 199 |
The Missing Mass | 201 | |
Other Methods of Determining if the Universe Is Open or Closed | 206 | |
Fate of the Closed Universe | 208 | |
Bounce | 209 | |
Fate of the Open Universe | 211 | |
Chapter 9 | The World of Particles and Fields | 213 |
Dirac's Equation | 217 | |
The Infinities | 220 | |
Renormalization | 222 | |
Yukawa | 230 | |
Gauge Theory | 233 | |
The Weak Interactions | 237 | |
Quantum Chromodynamics | 241 | |
Summary and Further Subdivision | 249 | |
Chapter 10 | A Unified Theory of the Universe | 253 |
Supergravity and Superstrings | 263 | |
Twistors and Heaven (H Space) | 268 | |
Chapter 11 | Epilogue | 271 |
The Future | 273 | |
The New Einstein | 274 | |
Further Reading | 277 | |
Index | 279 |
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