In the preparation of this website I have made free use of a great many books and websites. Among the most important and most often referenced (although in no particular order) are:

BOOKS

• “The Dancing Wu Li Masters” by Gary Zukav (Perennial, 1979)
• “God and the New Physics” by Paul Davies (Penguin, 1983)
• “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 1988)
• “Deep Time” by David Darling (Bantam Press, 1989)
• “The Physics of Star Trek” by Lawrence M. Krauss (Basic Books, 1995)
• “Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe” by Martin Rees (Basic Books, 2000)
• “A Briefer History of Time” by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 2005)
• “Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You” by Marcus Chown (Faber and Faber 2007)
• “The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space” by Jim Lebans (McClelland and Stewart, 2008)
• “Death from the Skies! These are the Ways the World Will End...” by Philip Plait (Viking, 2008)
• “You Are Here - A Portable History of the Universe” by Christopher Potter (Vintage, 2009)

TV & VIDEO

• "The Elegant Universe" (Nova, 2003)
• "The Universe" (History Channel, 2007)
• "Journey to the Edge of the Universe" (National Geographic Channel, 2008)
• "Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe" (Channel 4, 2008)
• "Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking" (Discovery Channel, 2010)
• "Through the Wormhole" (Science Channel, 2010)
• "How the Universe Works" (Discovery Channel, 2010)
• "The Fabric of the Cosmos" (Nova, 2011)

WEBSITES

• WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
• NASA: Universe 101 (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/)
• BBC: Space (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/)
• How Stuff Works: Astronomy (http://science.howstuffworks.com/astronomy-channel.htm)
• Curious About Astronomy (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/)
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/)
• About.com: Physics (http://physics.about.com/)
• Internet Encyclopedia of Science (http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html)
• Flash Modern Physics Tutorials (http://www.gilestv.com/tutorials/tutorials.html)
• Physics for Future Presidents Lectures by Richard A. Muller, U.C. Berkeley, on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysbZ_j2xi0)

CONTACT ME

If there are any glaring errors in this website, the fault is almost certainly my own (and not that of these sources). I would appreciate any feedback, complaints, notification of broken links, copyright infringements, even spelling mistakes, to lukem@lukemastin.com.