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408 subject index<br />

C<br />

classical<br />

classical electron radius 335<br />

classical physics<br />

end of 325<br />

essence of 324<br />

summary of 320–326<br />

classification 238<br />

classifiers 243<br />

cloak, invisibility 162<br />

clothes, seeing through 105<br />

cloud<br />

charging, illustration 206<br />

photographs 205<br />

clouds<br />

floating plasma 208<br />

CMOS 227<br />

CO 2 324<br />

Co 216, 217<br />

coal 219<br />

cobalt 17<br />

CODATA 386<br />

coherence<br />

definition 169<br />

coherer 97<br />

coil guns 59<br />

cold fusion<br />

as lie 285<br />

colour 102, 220<br />

as mixture 121–126<br />

blindness, illustrations 197<br />

has three dimensions 124<br />

space, illustrations of 124<br />

colour blindness 197<br />

colour displacement, Wien’s<br />

144<br />

colour, world survey 369<br />

colours in nature 368<br />

comb<br />

an electricity 16<br />

frequency 366<br />

comet 117<br />

artificial 120<br />

tail photograph 117<br />

comet shower 324<br />

comet tails 120<br />

comets 367<br />

Commission Internationale<br />

des Poids et Mesures 327<br />

communication<br />

faster than light 132<br />

communism 41<br />

compact disc 245<br />

comparison with a standard<br />

294<br />

compass needle 55<br />

completeness 23<br />

complex numbers 271<br />

complexity<br />

high 308<br />

infinite 308<br />

comprehensibility<br />

of universe 305<br />

Compton effect 220<br />

Compton wavelength 335<br />

computer<br />

digital 254<br />

similar to brain 241<br />

working of 254<br />

computer scientists 236<br />

concept 256, 261<br />

a priori 238<br />

definition 238, 260<br />

conditions<br />

boundary 85<br />

initial 85<br />

conductance quantum 335<br />

conductivity 216<br />

cones 181<br />

cones in retina 245, 269<br />

Conférence Générale des<br />

Poids et Mesures 327<br />

confocal laser scanning<br />

microscopy 141<br />

conformal symmetry 86<br />

Conférence Générale des<br />

Poids et Mesures 328<br />

conjectures 281<br />

conscious 90<br />

consciousness 315<br />

definition 315<br />

conservation 23, 307<br />

constants<br />

table of astronomical 336<br />

table of basic physical 333<br />

table of cosmological 338<br />

table of derived physical<br />

335<br />

continuity<br />

of charge 23<br />

continuum 27, 44<br />

continuum hypothesis 265<br />

Convention du Mètre 327<br />

converging lenses 155<br />

copper 22, 216, 232, 234<br />

core<br />

Earth’s 211<br />

cornea 110, 220<br />

correctness<br />

definition of 281<br />

cosmic radiation 233<br />

cosmic rays 204, 207, 233, 323<br />

cosmological constant 338<br />

cosmonaut 162<br />

cosmos 237<br />

Cotton–Mouton effect 218<br />

coulomb 23, 329<br />

Coulomb force 27<br />

Coulomb’s ‘law’ 229<br />

Coulomb’s and Gauss’s<br />

‘laws’, equivalence of 28<br />

Coulomb’s formula<br />

illustration 26<br />

countability 265<br />

courage 318–319<br />

covariance<br />

and separability 305<br />

Cr 217<br />

crackpot 298<br />

challenges for 260<br />

creation 306–309<br />

and the big bang 306<br />

as a type of motion 307<br />

creation science<br />

as lie 285<br />

creationism 285<br />

critical magnetic field 35<br />

crop circles 288<br />

crust<br />

Earth’s 211<br />

of the Earth 211<br />

cryptochromes 40<br />

crystal<br />

liquid 166<br />

Cs 220<br />

CsNO 3 219<br />

Cu 216<br />

cube, magic 275, 358<br />

cucumber as lamp 134<br />

Motion Mountain – The Adventure of Physics copyright © Christoph Schiller June 1990–November 2015 free pdf file available at www.motionmountain.net

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