Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall [199]
AMS-02 see Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
anarchic principle, 311
Anderson, Carl, 99
Angels and Demons (movie), xix
angular momentum, 80–81
animal magnetism, 9–10
ANTARES, 393
anthropic principle, 339, 351, 375
antimatter, 99–100, 375–76
antimuon, 244
antineutron, 99, 392
antiparticles, 107–13, 244, 292–93, 297, 380, 390–91
antiproton, 99–100, 108, 111, 376, 392
antiquark, 84, 84–87, 86
antitau, 244
Apparatus with Super Conducting Toroids see ASCOT
Applied Minds, 300
Aprile, Elena, 387–88
ArDM (Argon Dark Matter), 384
argon, 229–30, 234, 384
Aristotle, 29, 35, 269
Arkani-Hamed, Nima, 318
Armstrong, Karen, 47
art
and beauty, 264–68
science, and religion, 40–46
ASCOT (Apparatus with Super Conducting Toroids), 219
“As Time Goes By” (song), xxiii, 421n
astrophysics, 121–22
asymptotic states, 262–63
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), 127–28, 151–52, 214, 214–36
detectors, 220, 221–25, 223
electromagnetic calorimeter, 229–31, 230
endcaps, 233, 233–34
general principles, 217–21
hadronic calorimeter, 231
and Higgs boson discovery, 293–94
magnets, 224, 225, 234–36
muon detector, 231–32
trackers, 225–29
atomic clock, 207–8
atomic physics, 15–16
atomic scale, 77–81
atom, 15, 69, 77–87, 78, 97–98
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 357–58
Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, 175
Augustine, 47–49
Avatar (movie), 349
Aymar, Robert, 149
background events, 209, 241
Bacon, Francis, 23
Baldo-Ceolin, Massimilla, 27
balloon analogy, 354–55, 354
Barings Bank, 183
beam-beam collisions, 101, 101–3
beanbags, 237–38
beauty, 261–64
in art, 264–68
in science, 268–70
vs. the sublime, 41
belief, xv, 4, 45–46, 50–51
see also religion
Bellarmine, Robert, 33
Bell Laboratories, 357–58
Bernanke, Ben, 196–97
Berners-Lee, Tim, xxii, 239, 329
Berra, Yogi, 236
beta decay, 114, 245
Bevatron, 99
Bible, 47–49, 57, 59, 62
Big Bang, 47, 122–23, 352–59, 362–64
Biogen, 360
biology, 74–76, 198–99
Bisphenol A see BPA
Bjorken, James, 100
black holes, 166–77
calculations, 169–72, 193
decay, 169, 171–73, 175, 194
see also LHC black holes
Blake, William, 402
blood circulation, 74–75
blue shift, 353
Bohr, Niels, 10, 80–81, 244–45, 273
Born, Brooksley, 196
boson, 254–55, 304–6
see also gauge boson; graviton; Higgs boson
bottom quark, 217, 247, 292–93, 293
bottom-up theories, 355, 363
BPA (Bisphenol A), 206–7
BP oil spill (2010), 183, 185
Brahe, Tycho, 31, 37–38, 38, 202, 421n
brain and consciousness, 53–54
brane, 315, 315–16, 323, 324–26, 325, 337
braneworld, 316, 317
broken symmetry, 268
Brooks, David, 400
Brooks, James L., 131
Broom Bridge (Dublin), 22
Brout, Robert, 117, 423n
Browne, Thomas, 44
Büchmann, Anna Christina, 3
Buckley, Matthew, 226–27
bulk, 324, 329
Bullet Cluster, 370–71, 371
Burj Khalifa (Dubai), 348
Burke, Bernie, 357
busbar, 158, 158–60
Byrne, Rhonda, 10
Calandra, Alexander, 407–8
calorimeter, 225, 229–31
Calvin, John, 64
Cambridge Roundtable on Science, Art and Religion, 63–65
Cameron, James, 348
capillary system, 74–75
carbon collimator, 141–42
Casablanca (movie), 401–2
Cassano, Joseph, 183–84
Catholic Church, 46, 47–49, 60–62
CDMS see Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
CDO see collateralized debt obligation
celestial body, 35–36, 36
Centro Culturale Altinate (Padua), 27–28, 39
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), xix, 108–9, 130–31, 144–51, 189–90
funding, 130, 146–47, 149–50, 151, 190
history of, 144–48
see also LEP; LHC
CERN Council, 148, 150
CERN Scientific Policy Committee, 148
Chamberlain, Owen, 99
Chang, David, 409
charge, 84, 108, 109, 114, 114–15, 116, 254, 254–55, 307
and dark matter, 383
and detectors, 220, 223–29, 231–32, 234–35, 243–45, 249–51, 383
and electromagnetic force, 85, 108, 223–25, 243–45, 254–55, 307, 383
and leptons, 242–46, 242, 254
and Standard Model, 242–46, 249, 251, 254, 254–55
and strong force, 104, 223, 246, 254–55, 262, 307, 425n
and weak force, 242, 245, 254–55, 280–85, 307
charm quark, 247, 250–51
Chartres Cathedral, 266, 267
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), 391