- Uhuru satellite, 1
- ultraviolet light, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 19
- uncomputability, 1 n. 4
- undecidability, 1 n. 4
- United States, 1
- Universal Turing Machine, 1
- Universe: age, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 18;
- and dark energy, 1, 2;
- and entropy, 1, 2, 3 n. 12;
- expansion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 n. 16, 7 n. 9, 8 n. 18;
- formation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 n. 13, 9 nn. 14, 16;
- future of, 1, 2, 3;
- and galaxies, 1, 2 n. 4;
- as image, 1, 2;
- inflation, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 5;
- and light, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 n. 14, 10 n. 2;
- and mass energy, 1, 2;
- observable, 1, 2, 3, 4 n. 9, 5 n. 19;
- past of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n. 10, 6 n. 5, 7 n. 8;
- perception of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 n. 5, 16 n. 4, 17 n. 4;
- and quantum theory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 n. 12;
- scale, 1, 2 n. 9;
- temperature, 1, 2, 3 n. 13;
- see also big bang, cosmic background radiation, event horizon, galaxies, Hawking radiation, ‘last scattering’, multiverse, red shift
- University College, London, 1
- uranium, 1, 2, 3
- Uranus, 1 n. 2, 2 n. 7
- US Navy, 1
- uterus, 1