Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall [202]
Guth, Alan, 360, 362
Habsburg, Francesca von, 128
hadron collider see LHC
hadronic calorimeter (HCAL), 231
hadron, 246–51
Hagen, C. R., 117, 423n
Halley’s comet, 28–29, 29
Hamilton, William Rowan, 21–23
Harris, Sam, 63–64
Harvard University, 21, 63–65, 175, 183, 201–2, 397
Harvey, William, 74–75
Hawking, Stephen, 26, 31, 171, 193, 194
Hawking radiation, 171–73
HCAL see hadronic calorimeter
hedge funds, 190
Heisenberg, Werner, 79
heliocentric theory, 46, 47, 61
helium, 139, 158–59, 356
Herbert, George, 63, 64–65
hermetic (hermetic measurement), 233–34
Herschel satellite, xiv
HESS (High Energy Stereoscopic System), 391
heterogeneity, 204, 207
hierarchy problem, 118–19, 296–99, 297, 317–18
and extra dimensions, 313–14, 317–22
and supersymmetry, 302–3, 306–7, 310–11, 312–13
and technicolor, 312
Higgs, Peter, 117, 277, 285–86, 423n
Higgs boson (Higgs particle), 286–96
decay, 291–93, 292, 293, 295
production, 289–91, 290, 295
search, 286–94
LHC search, 115, 117–18, 286–87
and supersymmetry, 288–89, 295–96, 304, 305–6, 311
Higgs field, 280–83, 285–87
and Higgs boson, 286–87, 289
Higgsino, 305–6
Higgs mechanism, 117–18, 268–69, 277–86, 295–96
Higgs scalar, 295–96
Higgs sector, 277, 294–96
High-z Supernova Search Team, 372
Hillis, Danny, 300
Hirst, Damien, 261
Hitchens, Christopher, 63–64
Holmes, Sherlock, 43
Homer, 3
Hooke, Robert, 23, 38, 409
horizon, 351
House Committee on Science and Technology, xxi–xxiii
Hoyle, Fred, 352
Hubble, Edwin, 123, 352–53
Hubble constant, 355–56
Huckabee, Mike, 4
humanities, 40–46
human physiology, 74–78
human scale, 347, 348
Hupfield, Herman, 421n
Huxley, Thomas, 260
Huygens, Christian, 23
hypotheses, 59–60, 202
and Galileo, 31–32
Ibn Sahl, 23
IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 393
inclined plane, 30, 30
indirect dark matter detection, 390–93
indirect observations and Galileo, 26, 31–38, 39
induction, 23, 43–44
inflation see cosmological inflation
injection phase, 133–34
inner trackers, 225
inner triplet of LHC, 154
intelligent design, 47, 49
intermediate particle, 298
Internet, 197, 239–40
intuition, 10, 66, 71, 400
invariant mass, 102
inverse square law, 406, 409
ionize, 97
Iraq War, 146
irreversibility, 424n
Islamic art, 266–67
Janssen, Zacharias, 37
Japanese art, 267, 267
Jenni, Peter, 214–15
jets, 247–49, 248
John Paul II, Pope, 49
Johnson, Matthew, 416
Joyce, James, 82
Jupiter, 34–35
Jura Mountains, 135, 144–45
Kaluza, Theodor, 314, 320
Kaluza-Klein (KK) mode/particle, 119, 314, 320–21, 321, 327–30, 328
Kamionkowski, Marc, 405
Kant, Immanuel, 41
Kaplan, David B., 403
Keats, John, 259
Kelly, Ellsworth, 267
Kelly, Kevin, 414
Kendall, Henry, 100
Kennedy, Anthony, 416
Kepler, Johannes, 30, 31, 62
Kibble, Tom, 117, 423n
kink, 250, 250
Klein, Calvin, 401
Klein, Oskar, 314, 320
Koerner, Joseph, 35
Koons, Jeff, 409
Kosslyn, Stephen, 13
Kovar, Dennis, xxi
Kristof, Nicholas, 206–7
Kyoto Protocol, 189
landscape, 338–39, 412
Large Electron-Positron Collider see LEP
large extra dimensions, 318–22
Large Hadron Collider see LHC
large scales, 347, 348–49
Lawrence, Ernest, 98–99
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 99
lead tungstate crystals, 229–30, 230
Leclerc, Georges-Louis, 401
Lederman, Leon, 287
Lee, T. D., 214–15
Lehmann, Harry V., 167–68
Lemaître, Georges, 47
Leonhardt, David, 196–97
LEP (Large Electron-Positron Collider), 105–6, 108, 110, 130–31, 150
lepton, 114–19, 115, 242, 243–46, 425n
Levenson, Tom, 33
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph, 367–68
LHC (Large Hadron Collider), xiii–xiv, xix–xx, 103, 113–22, 127–199
black holes at. see LHC black holes
brief history of, 130–31, 148–65, 162–63
comparison with other colliders, 109, 110, 111–12
computational power of, 236–40
Computing Grid, 239–40
costs and funding, 130, 146–47, 149–50, 151, 190
cryodipole magnets, 129–30, 136–40, 138
and dark matter, 119–22, 377, 378, 379, 381–82
and energy scale, 86–87
forecasting, 197–99
and general principles, 217–21
major issues and physics goals, 300–331
and measurements, 210–13
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