Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall [203]
search for Higgs boson, 286–96
setting, 132
vacuum, 129–30, 140–42
see also ATLAS; CMS
LHC black holes, xix, 166–77, 179–80, 195
liberal education, 201–2
light
and atomic scales, 77–78
and dark matter, 120
and small wavelengths, 95–97
speed of. see speed of light
theories of, 21–25
light quarks, 73, 289
linac, 133–34
Linde, Andrei, 363
linear accelerator, 100, 105–6
Lipinski, Daniel, xxii
Lippershey, Hans, 32, 37
lithium, 356
Llewellyn Smith, Christopher, 150
Lloyd, Humphrey, 22–23
logic, 12, 38–39, 43–44, 57
Louis XVI of France, 10
Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP), 308, 309, 381–82
luminosity, 103, 112, 294
LSP see Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
Luther, Martin, 61–62
LUX (Large Underground Xenon Detector), 384, 386
Mad Men (TV show), 44
Maestlin, Michael, 62
magnetic moment, 210–11, 212
magnets (magnetic fields)
ATLAS, 224, 225, 234–36
CMS, 224, 234–35
LHC, 129–30, 136–40, 149, 153–55
Malpighi, Marcello, 75
Mangano, Michelangelo, 173, 174
Man on Wire (film), 398–99
maps, 13–14
Mariana Trench, 348
marine biology, 47
mass, 116–19
see also Planck mass; weak mass scale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), 64–65, 360
materialist view, xviii, 50–56
Matisse, Henri, 267–68
matter, 69–70, 375–76
Maxwell, James Clerk, 23
Meade, Patrick, 175–76, 330
Measure for Measure (Levenson), 33
measurements, xix, 200–213
accuracy in particle physics, 208–10
and the LHC, 210–13
objective of, 206–8
and scientific uncertainty, 201–6
Mercury, 350, 368, 402
metaforecasting, 199
meteorology, 35
meter, 70–71
Meyrin, 222
Michelangelo, 265
microscopes, 37, 217
Milky Way, 352, 369
Milton, John, 64–65
model building, 260, 270–75, 332–33
and string theory, 334, 339–42
model vs. theory, 272
molecular gastronomy, 51–52
molecules, 19, 19, 52
momentum, 245–46, 252–53, 422n
Montgomery, Hugh, xxi
Moon, the, 35, 38, 349
moral hazards, 190–91
Motl, Luboš, 197
Mont Blanc, 348
Mount Everest, 348
M-theory, 92, 337
see also string theory
multiverse, 326, 338, 351
muon detector, 216, 224–25, 225, 231–32, 232
muon, 104, 114, 243
Murasaki Shikibu, 3
music, 32, 41–42, 52, 53
Musk, Elon, 128
NASA, 182–83
Natcher, William, 146
National Science Foundation, 167
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 413
Nelson, Harry, 384–85
Neptune, 368
neutrino, 244–46, 392–93, 425n
neutron, 15, 82–86
neutron star, 174
New Atheists, 63–64
Newton, Isaac (Newton’s Laws), 8, 15, 51, 80–81
and gravity, 30–31, 38, 51, 350, 406
and inverse square law, 406, 409
and laws of motion, 15, 71–72
and light, 23–24
New York Times, 113, 196, 206–7, 300, 400
nine-dots problem, 406, 407, 407
Noah, Joakim, 71
noble liquid detector, 384, 385, 387–88
No Canary in the Quanta (Lehmann), 167–68
nongravitational forces, 88–89, 89
Nowak, Martin, 20
nuclear physics, 81–87
nuclear proliferation, 189
nucleon, 82–86
nucleotide, 76
nucleus, 78, 78–79, 97–98
Obama, Barack, 57
objectivity, 43, 44–45
observation, 346, 402
and Galileo, 31–38, 39, 60–61
Oddone, Pier, xxi
Odyssey (Homer), 3
Oliver, John, 181
Omphalos (Gosse), 47
Oort, Jan, 369
open string, 316, 316
optical illusion, 32, 33
Opticks (Newton), 21
optics, 21–25, 24
orbital angular momentum, 80–81
Origin of Species (Darwin), 406
osella, 27
Outliers (Gladwell), 400
Overbye, Dennis, 300
Pacific Ocean, 349
Padua, 26–28, 33–34, 36–37
Page, Larry, 400
PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter
Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics), 391–92, 392
Paradise Lost (Milton), 64–65
parity violation, 263–64, 280
particle colliders, 101–13
comparison of different, 109, 110, 111–12
types of, 103–6
vs. fixed-target experiments, 101, 101–3
see also LEP; LHC; SLAC; Tevatron
particle ID, 386–87
particle physics, 72–81
accuracy in, 208–10
and cosmology, 360–61, 377, 379
effective theories, 20–21, 25
and materialist view, 50–56
modeling, 270–75
Standard Model of, see Standard Model
particles, 107–12, 116–19, 241–54, 242, 254–55
and detection, 214–54
see also Standard Model
Pasteur, Louis, 404
Pauli, Wolfgang,