A
anthropic principle 96
Aristotle’s theory of gravity 2
B
bending of starlight 30
binary pulsar systems 41
black hole radiation 89
black holes 36
C
Cavendish’s experiment 25
CMB polarization 80
concordance model of
cosmology 76
constancy of mass 17
cosmic in’ation 90
Cosmic Microwave Background
(CMB) 63
cosmological constant 60, 93
cosmology 58
critical rate of cosmic expansion 62
D
dark energy 77
dark matter 76
double pulsar 42
E
E = m c2 11
early Universe 64
Eddington’s expedition 31
efect of gravitational waves 48
Einstein’s theory of gravity 8
ether 20
Euclid satellite 82
event horizons 36
expanding Universe 58
expansion history of the
Universe 68
experimental probes of Einstein’s
theory 27
experimental probes of Newton’s
law 24
F
fine-tuning of the cosmological
constant 94
flat and curved spaces 13
frame dragging 33
G
galaxy rotation 75
General Theory of
Relativity 12
geodetic precession 33
gravitational lensing 75
gravitational redshifting 18
gravitational time dilation 20
gravitational wave detectors 51
gravitational waves 46
gravity as acceleration 14
gravity from curvature 11
Gravity Probe B 33
H
history of cosmology 59
Hubble’s law 60
Hughes-Drever experiment 22
Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar
system 37
I
interferometry 21
K
kepler’s laws 6
L
laboratory tests of gravity 26
large-scale structure in the
Universe 71
Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope 82
late Universe 71
life of a star 35
LIGO experiment 50, 52
Loop Quantum Gravity 88
lunar laser ranging 24
M
Maxwell’s theory of light 8