Bell, Jocelyn, 186–87
Bell Telephone Laboratories, 53, 54, 55, 156, 157
Berkeley cyclotron, 130, 131
Berry, Chuck, 39
big bang, 17–18, 33, 48, 52, 57, 83, 108–9, 117, 120
big G, 40
binary stars:
Roche lobe of, 138–39
spectra of, 36–37
biochemistry, 203
biogenic markers, 188, 190
biomarkers, 188–89
black holes, 37, 44, 82, 97, 139, 164
Boole, George, 200n
Boolean algebra, 200n
Bose, Satyendra Nath, 22
bosons, 21–22
calcium, 36
California Institute of Technology, 76–77
Cambridge, University of, 186, 201
carbon, 31, 36, 121, 123, 124, 203
carbon dioxide, 189
carbonic acid, 191
Carnegie Institution, 80
Case Western Reserve University, 88
Cassini probe, 176
causality laws, 46
Cavendish, Henry, 117–18
centrifugal force, 141–42
Ceres, 128–29, 132
cerium, 128
Charon (moon), 172–73
children, 195, 196
Chile, 159
chimpanzees, 200
chlorine, 116–17
Christianity, 34
climate, 42
Cold War, 161–62
Coma Berenices, 77
Coma cluster, 77–79, 144
comets, 29, 35, 82, 131–32, 169–70, 195
long-period, 170
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, 162
conservation laws, 45
constants, physical, 40–42
see also specific constants
Contact (film), 159
controls, 148–49
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 98
cosmic background, 49
cosmic microwave background (CMB), 50–61, 84, 156, 163