A
Absolute time, 128, 130, 131
Absolute zero, 93–94
Acathla (character), 257, 258, 260
Acceleration, 98, 99, 103–104, 119, 136, 226, 277–278, 278n
Adam (character), 66, 92
Adams, Douglas, 204
“Afterlife” (B-6), 67–68, 91
Alchemy, 69–70
Alice in Quantumland (Gilmore), 153
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 206
Alsok Company, 62
Alternate realities, 184–203
“Amends” (B-3), 50
American Astronomical Society, 278n
Amplitude, 18–19
Amy (character), xiv, 77, 79, 82, 85
Andrew (character), 16, 28, 42, 69, 130–131, 159
Anelastic solid, 105
“Angel” (B-1), 71
Angel (character), xiii, 14–17, 38, 40, 47–49, 52–53, 71, 74, 88–92, 115–119, 123, 126, 136–139, 142, 143, 166, 192–194, 198, 199, 206, 211, 212, 241, 262, 276, 280–282
Angelus (character), 97, 261
Angular momentum, 109, 110, 213
“Anne” (B-3), 199
Antimatter, 196, 200–201, 215, 249
Antiparticles, 215, 217
Anya (character), 56, 72, 80, 84, 105, 169–171, 190, 195, 200
Anyanka (character), 184, 190, 191
Apocalypse, 255–283
“Apocalypse Nowish” (A-4), 262
Apple Computer, 56
“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been” (A-2), 16
Aristotle, 126
Artificial intelligence (AI), 63, 65, 66
Artificial retinas, 59
Ascension, 80
Assyrians, 4
Asteroids, 256, 263
Atomic bomb, 262
Atomic clocks, 130, 135, 137
Atoms, 8–9, 35–36, 40, 77–79, 88, 93, 94, 159, 160, 162, 164, 174–175, 181
Augustine of Hippo, 123
B
B mesons, 250–251, 254
Babylonians, 125–126
“Bad Girls” (B-3), 132
Balance, 113, 115
Balthazar (character), 132
“Bargaining” (B-6), 54, 62, 67
Bathory, Elizabeth, 4–5
Bats, 23
Beast, the, 262–264, 277
“Becoming” (B-2), 199, 256–257, 261, 273
Bell, Alexander Graham, xv
“Belonging” (A-2), 206
Ben (character), 155, 158, 165, 166, 241
Bennett, Charles, 170
Bethany (character), 52–54, 57
Beyond Star Trek (Krauss), 49
Big bang, 93, 176, 177, 197, 238, 240, 246, 259, 279
Big Rip scenario, 277–278
Biocompatibility issues, 60
“Birthday” (A-3), 176, 185
Black holes, xix, 146–150, 195–196, 206–207, 210, 212–215, 232, 234, 240, 257–260, 269, 279
Black magic, 83
“Blood Ties” (B-5), 170, 266
Blue-ringed octopus, 25
Body armor, 104–107
BodyMedia, 56
Bohr, Niels, 178
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 88, 93
Borges, Jorge Luis, 184–185
Bose, Satyendra, 174
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), 94, 174–175, 182
Bosons, 245
Brain-to-computer interface, 56–57
Branes, 237–240, 249
“Bring on the Night” (B-7), 104, 274
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 258–259
Brooks, Rodney, 66
Brown University, 56
“Buffy vs. Dracula” (B-5), 68
Buffybot, 62, 64, 121
Burkle, Winifred (see Fred (character))
Caleb (character), 120, 121
Calendar, Jenny (character), xvi
Camouflage, 14–15, 44
Carroll, Lewis, 206
Casimir, Henrik, 217
Casimir effect, 217, 218
Causality, 140, 142, 143
Centrifugal force, 108
Centripetal force, 108, 213
Chameleons, 14–15
Charge, 69
Chemical reactions, 70
Chicago Sun Times, 259
Chinese folklore, 4
Chinese room parable, 65
“Choices” (B-3), 130
“Chosen” (B-7), 46, 105, 275
Christian theology, 126
Chronological time, 124, 138, 139
Circle of the Black Thorn, 280–282
Circular motion, 108–109
Clarke, Arthur C., xviii
Clausius, Rudolf, 276–278
Closed timelike curves, 137, 139–143
Coherence, 174, 181, 182
Combustion, 70
Complementarity, 156
Compressions, 18
Condensation, 70
Cone cells, 11, 59
Connor (character), 193–195, 199, 200, 241
Conservation laws, xix, 68–71, 76, 77, 85, 126, 148, 195, 272
“Conversations with Dead People” (B-7), 120, 176
“Conviction” (A-5), 60–61
Copenhagen University Observatory, 139
Cordelia (character), 16, 49–50, 53, 166, 176, 184–187, 190, 192–193, 194, 205, 211, 227, 229, 231, 233, 241, 250
Cosmic censorship principle, 269
Cosmic microwave background radiation, 93, 196
Cosmic rays, 261
CP symmetry, 249
Crickets, 17
“Crush” (B-5), xviii, 133
Cryogenics, 27–29
Cryonics, 27, 29
Cyberkinetics, 56
Cybernetics, 58–59
Cyborgs, 58–59
D
D-branes, 239
“Damage” (A-5), 134
Dark energy, xviii, 238, 277
Darla (character), 71, 88
Davis, Wade, 26
Dawn (character), 24, 25, 90, 91, 134–135, 177, 180, 181, 187, 193, 266–267, 269–270
“Dead Man’s Party” (B-3), 26, 178
Decibels (db), 19–21, 156
Decoherence, 175–177, 181–183, 187, 191
Democritus, 184
Dennett, Daniel C., 65
Dennis (character), 49–50
“Destiny” (A-5), 82
D’Hoffryn (character), 80, 170, 171
Digital signal processors (DSPs), 21
Dimensions, alternative, 194–195
Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav LeJeune, 239n
“Dirty Girls” (B-7), 121
Distillation, 70
“Doomed” (B-4), 124, 255
“Doppelgangland” (B-3), 128, 191
Dracula (Stoker), 4
Dracula, Count, 3, 4
Drusilla (character), 71, 133, 273
Dualities, 156, 241–244
Duke University, 57
E
Egyptians, ancient, 69, 125
Einstein, Albert, 40, 78–80, 130, 131, 134, 136, 137, 139, 142, 168, 174, 178, 183, 196, 200, 207, 210, 226, 231, 232, 234
Einstein-Rosen bridge, 150n, 207
Electonic implants, 58–60
Electric eels, 37
Electroencephalography (EEG), 52, 53
Electromagnetic radiation, xiv, 8–9, 49
Electromagnetism, xvii, 33–66, 85, 226–227
Electrons, 8–10, 36–38, 43, 47–48, 72, 156, 165–167, 186, 230, 241
Elegant Universe, The (Greene), 225
Elixir of Life, 69–70
Elliptical orbits, 140
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 255
Emmy nominations, 17
Emory University, 57
“Empty Places” (B-7), 105
“End of Days” (B-7), 121, 177–178
Energy, 69, 72–74, 76–85, 87–91, 98, 99, 101–104, 106, 117, 119, 137, 195, 196
Entanglement, xix, 168–171, 173–177, 181, 182
Entrophy, xvii, 84–85, 87–90, 92, 93, 127, 149, 247, 250, 274–276, 280
Equivalent exchange, 70
Evaporation, 70
Event horizon, 207, 212, 213, 257, 269
Everett, Hugh, III, 186–187, 189, 193, 195
Extrasensory perception (ESP), 54
F
Faith (character), 274
“Fear, Itself” (B-4), 154
Fermilab, 262
Fermions, 245
Fiber optics, xv, 40, 171, 174
Fifth force, 54n
Fifth spatial dimension, 226, 229–230
Fight, physics of, 95–122
First, the, 50, 51, 76, 92, 104, 120, 134, 270, 273n, 274, 275
“Fool for Love” (B-5), 121, 127
Forced oscillation resonance, 19, 267
“Forever” (B-5), 90
Frame of reference, 131–135
Franklin, Benjamin, 3
Fred (character), xvii, 40, 47, 50–51, 58, 82–83, 90–91, 138, 163–166, 175–176, 199–200, 211, 223–226, 229–235, 237–239, 241–247, 249–251, 253, 254, 268
Fyarl demon, 30, 32
G
Gachner (character), 154
Galaxies, 202, 210, 278
Galileo, 126
Gamma rays, 43–44
“Garden of Forking Paths, The” (Borges), 184–185
Gellar, Sarah Michelle, xii
Gene (character), 143–150, 152, 175, 198, 212, 225, 254
General relativity, 127, 136–137, 140, 142, 147, 225, 234, 253
Gentlemen (characters), 17–18, 19, 21, 267
“Get It Done” (B-7), 68, 72–73, 214, 272, 274
“Gift, The” (B-5), 62, 67, 121, 270
Giles (character), xii, xvi, xx, xxi, 7, 15, 19, 21, 30, 62, 76, 84, 87, 131, 154, 158, 176, 182, 190, 192, 255, 256
Gilmore, Robert, 153
“Gingerbread” (B-3), 77, 92
Glarghk Ghul Kashma’nik (demon), 187–188
Global warming, 256, 264
Glory (character), 92, 120, 155, 158, 165, 166, 170, 241, 266
Glove of Mynhegon, 35
Gluons, 259
Gnarl (character), 24, 25
“Gone” (B-6), 42
Gravitational lensing, 40–41
Gravitational radiation, 214
Gravitons, 240, 252
Gravity, xvii, 49, 52–53, 85, 113, 116, 136–137, 146–147, 202, 213, 215, 226–227, 230–232, 239, 240, 247, 258, 265, 277–278
Great Cosmic Wave Function, 176
Greene, Brian, 224, 225, 238
Greenhouse effect, 264
Greenwich Mean Time, 125
“Ground State” (A-4), 33
Groundhog Day (movie), 139
Guardians, the, 275
Gunn (character), 17, 38, 194, 212, 226, 232, 233, 241, 247, 249, 251, 254
H
“Habeas Corpus” (A-4), 26
Hagfish, 2, 30–32, 105
Haitian zombification rituals, 25–27
Halfrek (character), 80
“Halloween” (B-2), 121, 154
Hamilton (character), 281–282
“Happy Anniversary” (A-2), 143–145, 175, 198, 225
Hara, 97
Harvard Medical School, 251
Harvard University, 137
“Harvest, The” (B-1), 5, 256
Hawking, Stephen, 135, 140, 148, 150, 178, 197, 269
Hearing, 17–18, 23
“Heartthrob” (A-3), xvii
Heat, 83–85, 87, 126, 127
Heisenberg, Werner, 158
Helium atoms, 146
“Hellbound” (A-5), 49, 82, 194, 229
“Hell’s Bells” (B-6), 185
“Helpless” (B-3), 121
Hemorrhage, 27
Higher Beings, 79–80
Hip throws, 111, 113, 115–116, 117
Hippocampus, 61
Hiroshima, 44
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 204
“Hole in the World, A” (A-5), xiv
Hot spots, 210, 211, 215, 234
“House Always Wins, The” (A-4), 18, 163–164, 166
“Hush” (B-4), 17
Hydrogen atoms, 146
Hyperspace (Kaku), 176
I
I, Cyborg (Warwick), 58
“ ‘I’ in Team, The” (B-4), 35
“I Robot, You Jane” (B-1), xvi, 35
“I Will Remember You” (A-1), 123
Illyria (character), xiii–xiv, 49, 90–91, 116, 137–139, 142, 216, 220
Imaginary numbers, 148–149
Imaginary (two-dimensional) time, 148–150
“Inca Mummy Girl” (B-2), 2
Inertia, 74, 98, 108, 110, 119
Inflation, 196–199
“Initiative, The” (B-4), 13
Initiative (government agency), 13, 35, 60
Interference pattern, 156, 158
Interneurons, 24
“Intervention” (B-5), 61–62
Inverse square laws, 52–53, 54n, 137n
Invisibility gun, 42–44
Ionization, 35, 37
Ionizing radiation, 43
Ions, 36, 43
iPod, 56
Irreversible process, 85, 87–88, 91, 127
J
Jaffe, Robert, 261
Jasmine (character), 174–176, 182, 195
Jheira (character), 204, 220
Jonathan (character), 28, 42, 69, 71, 83, 130, 131, 140, 185
Joule, James Prescott, 76
Joyce (character), xii, 30–31, 90, 193
“Judgment” (A-2), 2
Judo, 113, 116, 117, 119
“Just Rewards” (A-5), 46–47
K
Kaku, Michio, 176, 196, 279–280
Kaluza, Theodr, 226, 229, 231
Kaluza-Klein models, 226, 230, 231
Kaons, 250–251, 254
Karate, 102–103
Kathy (character), 214
Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson), 276–278
Kendra (character), 96–99, 101, 102, 108, 119, 272–273
Kennedy (character), 73, 83
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 259
Kevlar vests, 105–106
Key, the, 266–270
“Killed by Death” (B-2), 97
“Killer in Me, The” (B-7), 60
Kinetic energy, 73–74, 76, 77, 81, 98, 99, 101, 116, 238, 252, 272
Kismet (robot), 66
Klein, Oskar, 229–231
Krauss, Lawrence, xviii, 49, 54n, 218
Kuang-shi (Chiang-shi), 4
K’uei, 4
Kurskov, Count (character), 143, 222
L
Lagos (character), 102
Lamastu (goddess), 4
Lamat, 126, 140
Lamia (monster), 4
LaPlace, Pierre Simon, 128
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 252, 258, 262
Larry (character), 111, 113, 115, 116
Laser beams, 40, 41, 94, 173, 174
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), 240
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), 42n, 240
Lee, Bruce, 102
Leibnitz, Gottfried von, 128, 130
Length contraction, 132, 135
“Lessons” (B-7), 176
Levi Strauss, 56
“Life Serial” (B-6), 69, 124, 130, 132–133
Light, 8–9, 11, 15, 18, 40–41, 44–46, 79, 155–156, 212
Lightning, 36–37
Lilith, 4
Lindley, David, 183
“Lineage” (A-5), 58
Linear momentum, 109
Linear motion, 109
“Listening to Fear” (B-5), 2, 30
“Living Conditions” (B-4), 214
Localized Ionic Sensory Activation (LISA), 42
London Sunday Times, 259
“Long Day’s Journey” (A-4), 263
Loop quantum theory, 253
Lorne (character), 18–20, 47, 166–167, 206, 212, 253, 254
“Lover’s Walk” (B-2), 117
M
M theory, 242
Maculotoxin, 25
Magic, xvii, xviii, 68–70, 74, 88, 168
“Magic Bullet, The” (A-4), 176
Many Worlds hypothesis, 185–187, 189–195, 198, 202, 205, 251
Marcy (character), 153–154, 158, 159, 166, 182, 183
Mark (character), 74, 76
Martial arts, 96–99, 101, 102, 109–120
Mass, 69, 74, 77–82, 85, 97–99, 103, 108–110, 113, 115, 119, 135, 137, 145, 148, 195, 196
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 66
Master, the, 154, 185, 186, 192, 256, 272
Matter, 47, 69, 70, 78, 196, 200, 202, 249
Mayans, 126, 140
McDonald, Lindsey (character), 45, 208, 221, 276, 280, 282
Meers, Warren (see Warren (character))
Mental telepathy, 54, 56–58, 61
Mermin, N. David, 168
Mesopotamia, 4
Metaphysics, 194
Meteors, 263
Middle Ages, 4, 69, 189
Milky Way, 210, 278
Mirror universe, 207
Misner, Charles, 208
Misner space, 208, 221
Miss Kitty Fantastico (kitten), 177–178, 180, 181, 187, 188
Momentum, 69, 99, 102–104, 109–110, 116, 158
Morgan, Lilah (character), 241
Motor neurons, 24
Motorola Corporation, 56
Mucus, 30–31
Multiply connected spaces, 207–208
Multiverse, use of term, 197
Mutari generators, 216
N
Nagasaki, 44
Naked singularities, 234, 268–269
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 160, 181
NDUOs (Nasty Demons of Unknown Origins), 2
Negative matter, 215–216
Neurons, 24, 65
Neurotoxins, 24–25
Neurotransmitters, 52
Neutrinos, 201
Neutron star, 220
Neutrons, 35, 78, 156, 259
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 44
“New Man, A” (B-4), 30, 76–77, 256
Newsday, 261
Newton, Isaac, xx, 49–51, 130, 131
laws of motion, 74, 97–99, 102, 127, 128, 142, 180, 232, 233, 243
Night of the Living Dead (movie), 27
Night vision, 12–13
“Nightmares” (B-1), 154
“No Place Like Home” (B-5), xiv
Noise cancellation, 21
“Normal Again” (B-6), 188, 190
Nosferatu, 6
“Not Fade Away” (A-5), 281
Novikov, Igor, 139
Nuclear weapons, 44, 138–139, 256, 263–264
Nucleosynthesis, 201
O
O’Bannon, Roy, 95
Ockham’s Razor, 189
Octopuses, 14, 25
Oden-Tao dimension, 204–205, 220
“Offspring” (A-3), 71
Old Ones, the, 280
Optobionics, 61
Oracle, the, 123–124, 126, 136, 139, 142, 143, 152, 194
Orbitals, 9, 10, 47–48, 78
“Origins” (A-5), 193
Osiris (character), 89
“Out of Mind, Out of Sight” (B-1), xiv–xv, 15, 153–154
“Out of My Mind” (B-5), 7
“Over the Rainbow” (A-2), 17, 194, 210
Oz (character), 192, 221
Ozone layer, 264
P
“Pangs” ((B-4), 87
Parallel universes, 185–187, 189–195, 198, 202, 205, 237–239
Particle accelerators, 144–146, 252, 258
Particle detectors, 156, 158
Particle ionization, 42, 43
Pauli exclusion principle, 48
Penn and Teller, 3
Percy (character), 192
Perturbation theory, 242–244
Phase transitions, 29, 87, 249, 259
“Phases” (B-2), xviii, 95, 111, 118
Philospher’s Stone, 69
Photons, 9, 40, 94, 155, 156, 158, 159, 164, 168–169, 171, 173, 174, 186, 241
Photophone, xv–xvi
Physics of Star Trek, The (Krauss), xviii
Piezoelectricity, 107, 108
Pit vipers, 13–14
Pivot point, 110, 113, 118
Planck length, 230, 258
Planck scale, 197, 233
Planets, 202, 265
Plasma, 41, 145
Plasmons, 45–46
Plato, 125, 126, 189
“Players” (A-4), 42
Polyethylene glycol, 105
Popper, Sir Karl, ix
Porphyria, 6
Portals, xix, 204–223, 232, 235, 237, 244, 246, 253, 266
Potential energy, 73–74, 76, 84, 98, 101, 116, 272
Potentials, 272–274
“Power Play” (A-5), 281
Praying mantises, 14, 23
“Price, The” (A-3), 199
“Primeval” (B-4), 60, 66
Profiles of the Future (Clarke), xviiin
“Prophecy Girl” (B-1), 256, 272
Prosthetics, neurally controlled, 57
Protons, 35–36, 78, 80, 156, 201, 259
Pufferfish, 25, 26
“Puppet Show” ((B-1), 75
Pylea, 17, 194, 195, 198–202, 206, 211, 214–215, 220, 232, 235, 237, 238, 246
Q
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), 244
Quantum cryptography, 173
Quantum jitters, 233
Quantum mechanics, xiv, 127, 147–148, 150, 152–183, 186, 187, 189, 190, 197, 225, 232, 253, 268
Quantum vacuum, 148, 196, 216–218, 220, 250
Quantum Zeno effect, 160, 162
Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), 259
Quarks, 80–81, 244–245, 259–260
Quartz crystals, 107
Queller demon, 1–2, 30, 31
Quor-Toth dimension, 195, 199, 200, 238
Ra-Tet (characters), 263
Rack (character), 84
Radiation, 78, 79, 146, 148, 201, 222, 258, 264
Radio waves, 54
Raiden, Gwen (character), 33–34, 36–38, 40–42
Raiden (god), 34n
Rarefactions, 18
Rayne, Ethan (character), 30, 154
Reading University, England, 58
Real (linear, or one-dimensional) time, 149–150
Reductionism, 189, 190
Reflection, 15–16
Refraction, 15, 41
Relational time, 128
Relative time, 130–136
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), 258–261
Relativity, xiv, 139, 150, 152, 190, 196, 232, 268
general relativity, 127, 136–137, 140, 142, 147, 225, 234, 253
special relativity, 127, 130, 131, 135, 136, 142
“Replacement, The” (B-5), 168
“Reptile Boy” (B-2), 70
Repulsive gravity, 277
Resurrection spells, 90
“Revelations” (B-3), 35, 102
Reviews of Modern Physics (journal), 225
Rhodopsin, 11–12
Riley (character), 60, 256
“Rm w/Vu” (A-1), 49–50
Robotics, 62–66
Rod cells, 11, 12, 59
Rosen, Nathan, 207
Rotational inertia, 110
Rupert Giles (see Giles (character))
Rusty (character), 28
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England, 41
S
Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Pittsburgh, 27–29
Sagan, Carl, 263
“Same Time, Same Place” (B-6), 24
“School Hard” (B-2), 8
Schrödinger, Erwin, 165, 177, 178, 181, 182
Schrödinger’s Cat, 177, 178, 181, 182, 187
Scoobies (characters), xv, 1, 3, 35, 54, 57, 66–68, 72, 89, 91, 107, 130, 155, 159, 168, 188, 190, 193, 214, 256, 269, 270, 277
Sea toad, 26
Searle, John, 65
Seidel, Oliver (character), 226, 235, 237, 240, 246
“Selfless” (B-7), 2, 80, 156
Sensory neurons, 24
Serpent and the Rainbow, The (Davis), 26
Shadow Men, the (characters), 272, 274
Shakespeare, William, xi
Shanghai Knights (O’Bannon), 95
“She” (A-1), xix, 204
She-Mantis (character), 2, 21, 23, 24
“Shells” (A-5), 49, 90, 116
“Shiny Happy People” (A-4), 175
Shooting stars, 263
“Showtime” (B-7), 105, 270, 272
Singularity, 146, 149, 150, 196, 206, 213, 214, 257, 269
Skip (character), 176
Smart materials, 105–107
“Smashed” (B-6), 28, 82, 103
“Smile Time” (A-5), xvi, 71
Snakes, 13–14
Snow, C. P., 92, 280
Sonar technology, 24
Sound waves, 18–21, 156, 240
Sparticles, 245
Spatial symmetry, 244
Special relativity, 127, 130, 131, 135, 136, 142
Spectrometers, xiv
Speed of light, 131–133, 135, 145, 168, 259
Spike (character), 3–4, 7, 8, 13, 16, 35, 46–51, 60–62, 64, 74, 76, 82, 87, 89–91, 93, 96, 103, 104, 108, 109, 111, 115, 117–118, 121, 127–128, 132, 138, 142, 213, 229, 240, 252, 281
Spinning techniques, 109–111
“Spiral” (B-5), 205–206, 266, 268
Split personality, 168, 169, 173
Standard model of physics, 230, 231
Star Trek (television show), xviii, 142
Stars, 201–202, 277, 278
Stoker, Bram, 4
“Storyteller” (B-7), 16, 159
Strangelets, 260–261
String theory, xiv, xix, 223, 224–253, 267–268
Stringy dualities, 241–243
Subatomic particles, 154, 155, 159, 160, 164–166, 168–169, 175, 180, 181, 186, 189, 197, 199, 222, 225, 230, 233, 234, 241, 245, 250, 258, 268, 278
Sunlight, 6–8, 43, 230
Supernova, 201, 262, 265, 278n
“Superstar” (B-4), 71, 185, 195
“Supersymmetry” (A-4), xv, 225, 241, 244, 246, 268
Suspended animation, 27–30
Sutherland, Donald, xii
Sutherland, Kiefer, xii
Symmetry breaking, 246, 247, 249–251, 254
T
T-duality, 244
Tachi, Susumu, 44
Tachyons, 142
Tara (character), 1, 83, 89–91, 170, 177
“Teacher’s Pet” (B-1), 2, 21
Telecloning, 173
Telekinesis, 52, 54, 56
Teleportation, xix, 169–173, 175, 200
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), xi
Temporal fold, 136–139, 142, 191
Tension, 268
Tento di Cruciamentum, 121
Terminals, 72
Tesla, Nikola, 216–218
Tetrodoxin, 25, 26
Tevatron, 262
“That Vision Thing” (A-2), 214
Thaumogenesis, 68, 71
Theory of everything (TOE), 225, 231, 232, 253
Thermal infrared radiation, 12–13
Thermodynamics, 67–94, 126–127, 211, 252, 275, 276, 280
Thermograms, 13, 14
“Thin Dead Line, The” (A-2), 26
Thinking (human thought), 63–66
Thorne, Kip, 218, 220
“Through the Looking Glass” (A-2), 206
Timaeus (Plato), 125
Time, 123–152, 199, 200, 249–251
“Time Bomb” (A-5), 138
Time dilation, 131–134, 200, 218, 220
Time-freezing research, 143–147, 150
Time loops, xix, 139–143
Time-reversal symmetry, 127
Time travel, 134–135, 142, 221–222
“To Shanshu, in L.A.” (A-1), 71
“Tomorrow” (A-3), 227
Torque, 109–110, 113, 118
Transmission, 15
Transylvania, 4–5
“Trial, The” (A-2), 71
“Triangle” (B-5), 195, 200
Trick, Mr. (character), 7
Trio, the, 16, 28, 42, 69, 71, 83, 124, 130–131, 139, 140, 159, 185
Turing, Alan, 63
Turing test, 63, 64
Turok-han, 6, 104–107
Twin paradox, 134
U
Übervamps, 104–107, 274
Uncertainty principle, 158, 162–163, 170–171, 180, 233
“Underneath” (A-5), 194, 208, 276
Universe, birth of, 195–199
University of California, Berkeley, 65
University of Delaware, 105
University of Geneva, 171
University of Lisbon, 251
University of Pennsylvania, 45
University of Southern California, 61
University of Tokyo, 59
“Untouched” (A-2), 52
Upir, 4
Uranium, 43–44, 78, 178
V
Vampires, xiii, 2, 87, 230–231
camouflage and, 14–15
Count Dracula, 3, 4
hearing and, 17–18
in history, 4–5
porphyria and, 6
reflection and, 15–16
sunlight and, 6–8
vision and, 12–14
Velocity, 99, 103, 119, 136, 158
Vetala, 4
“Villains” (B-6), 12, 83, 89
Viscoelastic material, 105, 106
Vision, 8, 11–14
Vrykolakas, 4
W
“Waiting in the Wings” (A-3), 143
Wakefield accelerators, 145
Warren (character), 28, 42, 61–62, 69
Warwick, Kevin, 58–61, 65
Wave function, 165–167, 178, 180, 181, 183, 186–187, 190, 192, 197
Wave/particle duality, 156, 241
“Weight of the World, The” (B-5), 267
“Welcome to the Hellmouth” (B-1), xii, 5
Wesley (character), 17, 58, 138, 193, 194, 210–212, 216, 241, 246, 250, 251
“What’s My Line?” (B-2), 14, 96, 108, 272
Whedon, Joss, xix–x, xvi, xvii
Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, but Not as Strange as You Think (Lindley), 183
“Where the Wild Things Are” (B-4), 19
White holes, 207
Wilde, Oscar, 1
Wilkins, Major (character), 80–82, 117, 130
William of Ockham, 189
Willow (character), xiii, xiv, xvii, xxi, 1, 24, 25, 35, 54, 56, 57, 61, 62, 67–68, 70, 72–73, 77, 81–85, 89, 91, 156, 158, 170, 176, 177, 185, 186, 188, 191, 192, 195, 256, 273, 275
WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), 226
Wireless devices, 246
“Wish, The” (B-3), 12, 184, 192–193
“Witch” (B-1), xiv, xv
Witten, Edward, 224, 225, 242
Work, concept of, 53n, 73–74, 76, 101, 126
Wormholes, 205–208, 210, 212, 214–218, 220–223, 232, 234, 235, 237, 244, 268, 279, 280
Wyndham-Price, Roger (character), 58
X
X-rays, 43
Xander (character), xiii, xiv, 1, 21, 24, 26, 56, 168, 169, 173, 185, 186, 192, 242–243, 272
Y
Yager, David, 23
Z
Zeno’s paradox, 159–160
“Zeppo, The” (B-3), 26, 256
Zombies, 25–27