Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall [200]
chirality, 425n
choreography, 7, 15–16
Christine Marie of France, 48
circulatory system, 74–75
classical mechanics, 73, 80–81
classical optics, 21–25
classical reasoning, 10
climate change, 180–83, 185, 187, 189
Clinton, Bill, 145–46
closed string, 316, 316
CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid), 151, 152–54, 215–36
detectors, 220, 221–25, 222
electromagnetic calorimeter, 229–31, 230
endcaps, 233–34
general principles, 217–21
hadronic calorimeter, 231
and Higgs boson discovery, 293–94
magnets, 224, 234–35
muon detector, 231–32
trackers, 225–28, 227
Coast to Coast (radio show), 180
COBE see Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer
Compact Muon Solenoid see CMS
Coleman, Sidney, 397–98
Coles, Katherine, 40
collateralized debt obligation (CDO), 184
College Observatory of Dunsink (Dublin), 22
colliders
comparison of different, 109, 110, 111–12
fixed-target and beam-beam, 101, 101–3
particles or antiparticles, 107–13
types of, 103–6
see also LEP; LHC; SLAC; Tevatron
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 196
Compact Muon Solenoid see CMS
Comte, Auguste, 390
condensate, 284, 305
condensed matter, 19
congressional earmarks, 260
congressional hearing, xxi–xxiii
conical refraction, 22–23
consciousness, 53–54
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire see CERN
Copernicus (Copernican system), 34–38, 38, 46, 47, 48, 61–62
corpuscular theory of light, 23–24
Cosimo II de’ Medici, 34, 35
Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer (COBE), 358–59, 366, 367
cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, 122, 358–59, 364, 365–66, 371–72
cosmic rays, 123–24, 173, 174, 175, 386
cosmological constant, 123, 355, 372–75
cosmological inflation, 121, 361–66
cosmology, xx, 120–21, 345–93
cost-benefit analysis, 185–86, 187–92, 207
Couchepin, Pascal, 161
Counter-Reformation, 61–62
creativity (creative thinking), 7, 398–400, 401, 403, 405, 409, 412–13
Creativity Foundation, 403, 405
credit-default swap, 184
CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers), 384, 386
critical thinking, 412–17
cryodipole magnets, 129–30, 136–40, 138
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), 384–87
cryogenic detector, 383–87
cryogenic magnets, at LHC, 139, 153–55
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 426n
curvature, 18, 327, 364–65, 365
cyclotron, 98–99
DAMA experiment, 386, 388–90, 389
dance and movement, 7, 15–16
dark energy, 122–23, 367, 367, 372–76, 373
dark matter, 119–22, 367, 366–93
direct detection, 382–90
indirect detection, 390–93
at the LHC, 377, 378, 379, 381–82
transparency of, 379–81
Darwin, Charles, 402, 406, 409
Dattola, Domenico, 227
da Via, Cinzia, 217, 227
David (Michelangelo), 265
Davis, Ray, 386
Dawkins, Richard, 63–64
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (movie), 44
deduction, 43–44
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 183
Democritus, 69
Dennett, Dan, 63–64
deregulation, 195–96
Derrickson, Scott, 6–7, 8, 44
Descartes, René, 30
desert hypothesis, 88–89
DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), 138
Detectors see ATLAS and see CMS
developmental psychology, 53
deviations, 106, 176, 208
Dicke, Robert, 357
dimensions see extra dimensions
Dimopoulos, Savas, 318–19
dinosaurs, 47
dipole magnet, 129–30, 136–40, 221
Dirac, Paul, 99–100
direct dark matter detection, 382–90
director general (DG) of CERN, 148
discrimination, 386–87
displaced vertex, 50, 250
DNA, 74–76, 409
Dona, Leonardo, 33–34
Doppler effect, 353
Doro, Michele, 36–37
down quark, 82, 83, 115, 247, 249–50
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 43
drug efficacy testing, 204–6
Dvali, Gia, 318–19
Dylan, Bob, 59
Dylan, Jesse, 128
E = mc2, 84, 87, 96, 99, 107, 252–53
EAGLE (Experiment for Accurate Gamma, Lepton, and Energy Measurements), 219
Earth, 35–38, 36, 38, 47, 70–71, 349–50
EDELWEISS (Expérience pour DE-tecter Les Wimps En Site Souter-rain), 384
Edison, Thomas, 404
effective theory, 16–21, 25
theories of light, 21–25
Einstein, Albert, 102, 116, 334
and curved space, 364–65
and dark energy, 122–23
and gravity, 18, 314, 402, 404
and relativity, xxiii, 91–92, 252–53, 314, 334, 355, 368
see also E = mc2; general relativity;