The Science of Discworld IV

also
gods/goddesses
    Harivamsa
59
    Harrison, M. John 162
n
    Hartle, James 227
    Hathor 100
    see also
gods/goddesses
    Hawking, Stephen 62, 159, 227, 239
    Hell 111
    Hertog, Thomas 227
    hieroglyphics 25, 29, 97, 201
    Higgs boson 19–22, 23, 28, 37, 158–60
    discovery of 20, 158
    as God particle 159–60
    see also
particles
    Higgs, Peter 20
    High-z Supernova Search Team 243
    Hinduism:
    and cosmic egg 101
    and elephant/turtle myths 55–7, 59
    and Ocean of Milk 57
    and Shamballa 111
    Hinton, Charles Howard 212–13
    Hitchens, Christopher 324
    Hobbes, Thomas 157
    Hobnil 53
    see also
gods/goddesses
    Holberg, Ludvig 112
    Hollow Earth
,
The
(Bernard) 112
    holograms 226–7
    Homo sapiens
4, 61
    Hooke, Robert 21
    horse, evolution of 179–80
    Hosanek 53
    see also
gods/goddesses
    House of the Turtles 53
    How the Mind Works
(Pinker) 81
    Hoyle, Fred 239, 287–9
    Hubbard, L. Ron 261
    Hubble, Edwin 236–8
    human genome 15
    Humason, Milton 237
    Humboldt, Wilhelm von 58
    Hume, David 63–4
    Hundred Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe
,
A
(Carpenter) 106–7
    Huxley, Thomas 62
n
    hyperbolic plain 227
    hypersphere 217–19, 238
    hypotheses 32
    Icosaméron
(Casanova) 112
    ideograms 202
    Ilmatar 101
    see also
gods/goddesses
    Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy
…,
The
(Rowbotham) 105
    Indian Rationalist Association 319
    Indicopleustes, Cosmas 102
    infinite progression 63–4
    infinite regression 1
    see also
causality
    inflation field 243
    intelligent design 156, 180–1, 186–7, 316–17
    and bacterial ‘motor’ 190–3
    and flagellum 190–1
    and irreducible complexity 191–3
    see also
creationism
    internet 87, 311
    and extelligence 256, 310
    and HTML 87
    Isaac Newton: A Biography
(More) 50
n
    Isidore of Seville, Bishop 103
    Isis 52
    see also
gods/goddesses
    isotopes 17
    Jackson, Andrew 111
    James, William 62
n
    Jillette, Penn 324
    Johansen, Hjalmar 111
    Joly, John 35
    Jones, Judge John 316–17
    Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679–80
(Danckaerts) 51
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
294
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth
(Verne) 113
    Journey to the Earth’s Interior
,
A
(Gardner) 111
    Judaism, Poland 260
    see also
belief; religion
    Jung, Carl 80, 188
    Kalevala
101
    Kant, Immanuel 236
    Kauffman, Stuart 182, 195
    Kelvin, Lord 35
    Khepri 26
    Koreshan Unity Society 109–10
    Korzybski, Count Alfred 262
    Kragh, Helge 288
    Krishna 57
    see also
gods/goddesses
    Kurma/Kurmaraja 56
    Labadists 51
    Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 194–5
    Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 15–16, 158–9, 223
    cost of 16
    and court injunctions 46
    reasons for constructing 19, 20
    Leavitt, Henrietta 236–7
    Ledermann, Leon 159
    Lemaître, Georges 238–9
    Leviathan
(Hobbes) 157
    Leya, Inigo 132
n
    Life’s Solution
(Conway Morris) 184
    light, wave–particle argument concerning 28
    Light
(Harrison) 162
n
    Linnaean Society 106
    Livio, Mario 288
    Locke, John 55, 157
    logical inference 32
    London Hydraulic Power Company 84
    Lopez, Liliana 127
    Lorenz, Edward 76
    Lovell, James 95
    Luminet, Jean-Pierre 221, 240
    Lundmark, Knut 237
    McBride, James 111
    MacNab, Robert 190–1
    magic 70–1
    technological 71, 81
    Magnus, Ludwig 110
    Maha-padma 56
    Mahabharata
58
    Manhattan Project 14–15
    Marsh, Othniel 179
n
    mathematics:
    of deterministic chaos 76
    as enabler of quantitative inferences 32
    Mathematics of Life
(Stewart) 132
    Matzke, Nicholas 192
    Maxwell, James Clerk 36
    Maya 53–5
    Mayan calendar 262–3
    memes 258–9
    Mesopotamia 98
    Messier, Charles 236
    Midsummer Night’s Dream
,
A
(Shakespeare) 6
    Milgrom, Mordehai 245–6
    Milky Way 97, 100, 236, 281
    see also
cosmology
    Miller, Jay 51
    Miller, Stanley 135
    mind–matter duality 79, 80
    Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) 245
    MokeyGod 294
    monotheism 311–13
    Moon:
    and Copernican cosmology,
see under
cosmology
    Earth’s distance from 30
    as god 25
    landings on 15, 95–6
    origin of 129–33
    and Ptolemaic cosmology,
see under
cosmology
    see also
cosmology
    Moore’s Law 183, 205
    More, Louis Trenchard 50
n
    Morris, Desmond 72
    Morrow, Ulysses Grant 109
    Mount Meru 56
    mousetraps, evolution of 182, 193
    see also
evolution: of technology
    Muller, Richard 156–7
    Nabopolassar 98
    naga
58–9
    Nansen, Fridtjof 111
    Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
(Poe) 113
    NASA 32, 95
    RHESSI launched by 127
    WMAP of 221
    natural selection 106, 140, 170, 181
    among religions 309–10
    and technology 181
    Natural Theology
(Paley) 179
n
    Nature
221, 239
    nature, laws of 154–8, 164, 167–72
    and climate