Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall [204]
Pauli exclusion principle, 304
Peebles, Jim, 357
Penzias, Arno, 356–58
Perez, Gilad, 215–16, 216
perturbations, 359, 366
Petit, Philippe, 398–99
phonon, 385, 387
photino, 305
photon, 84, 84–86
and electromagnetic calorimeter, 229, 243, 293–94
and Higgs mechanism, 281–82, 284–85
and light, 24, 24–25
physical units, 70–71
physiology, 74–78
Picasso, Pablo, 400
Pierini, Maurizio, 161
Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, 175
PIM, 155–56
Ping-Pong ball, 156
pion, 243–44, 246–47
pixels, 81, 226–27
Planck, Max, 197, 264
Planck brane, 323, 324
Planck length, 90–92
Planck mass, 296–99, 297, 317–18, 335–36
Planck satellite, xiv, 365–66
Planck scale, 91–92, 318, 335–36
planetary orbits, 349–50, 368
Plato, 269
Pleiades, 34
Polchinski, Joe, 315
Politzer, David, 263
Pollock, Jackson, 267
positron, 244
Power, Clement, 41–42
Powers of Ten, 346, 348
practice, 400–401
precise measurements, 202–4
precision, use of term, 203
precision electroweak measurement, 106, 288
predictions, 181–82, 192, 193–94, 198–99
pressure, 19, 19
Princeton University, 357
probability (probabilistic thinking), 181, 200–201, 203
Protestantism, 61–62, 64
proton 15, 82–86, 83, 86, 97–101, 104–12
decay, 89–90
proton colliders, 104–12, 132
see also LHC
proton sea, 85, 87, 110
proton synchrotron (PS), 133–36, 134
proton synchrotron booster (PSB), 133–36, 134
Ptolemaic system, 37–38, 38
public policy, 190–91, 206–7
Pushkin, Alexander, 398
pyramid scheme, 184
QCD see quantum chromodynamics
QED see quantum electrodynamics
quadrupole magnets, 141–42, 154, 158, 159, 221
quantization, 80
quantum chromodynamics (QCD), 261–63
quantum contributions, 297, 305, 318
quantum electrodynamics (QED), 25
quantum field theory, 210–11, 263, 285, 298, 362
quantum gravity, 73, 91–92, 335–36
quantum mechanics, 10–11, 24–25, 193–94, 414
and atomic scale, 73, 79–81
and black hole decay, 171–72, 193
and dark energy, 374–75
and general relativity, 252–53
and gravity, 91–92, 335–36
and measurement uncertainty, 209–10
and Planck length, 91–92
and supersymmetry, 302–7
and wave relations, 96, 129
quantum optics, 24, 24–25
quantum theory of gravity, 116, 333
Quark and the Jaguar, The (Gell-Mann), 407–8
quarks, 15, 82–87, 83, 84, 97–101
discovery of, 82–83, 98–101
and Gell-Mann, 82, 262–63
and LHC, 86, 86–87
Standard Model at LHC, 114–19
see also bottom quark; charm quark;
down quark; strange quark; top
quark; up quark
quaternions, 22
quench, 139–40
Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 144, 243
radio-frequency (RF) cavities, 135–36
randomized studies, 205–6
Reagan, Ronald, 145–46
red shift, 352–53, 353, 355–56
reductionism, 54
regulators (regulations), 184, 186, 187, 191–92, 195–96
Reinhart, Carmen, 195–96
relativity, 91–92
see also general relativity; special relativity
relic density, 120, 380–81
relic radiation see cosmic microwave background
Religio Medici (Browne), 44
religion, 45–46
religion and science (religion-science debate), xv, xviii, 4, 40–66, 269, 412
rescaling, 324–25
Richman, Jeff, 164
Riley, Bridget, 267
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 41
risk, 168, 179–93, 195–97, 415–16
Rogoff, Kenneth, 195–96
Rosenthal, Benjamin, xxi
Rubbia, Carlo, 108–9, 150
Rubin, Vera, 369
Rutherford, Ernest, 97–98, 98
Salam, Abdus, 62
Sancho, Luis, 167
scalars, 295–96
scale, xviii, 5–21, 72–81, 183–84, 191, 402
atomic, 77–81
and effective theories, 11–21
and Galileo, 36–37
human, 347, 348
large, 70–72, 347, 348–49
LHC energy, 86–87
rescaling, 324–25
small, 72–76, 73
small wavelengths, 95–97
and unification, 88–90
of the unknown, 41–46
weak energy, 115, 118–20
weak mass, 296, 298, 319, 326, 377, 380–82
scientific measurements see measurements
scientific misconceptions, xvi–xvii, 259–75
scientific theories, xviii, 3–5, 11–25, 43–44
bottom-up vs. top-down, 333, 334–35, 355, 363
scientific uncertainty, xix, 201–6, 412
scintillation experiment, 388–89
screening distance, 284
Scrovegni Chapel (Padua), 28–29, 29
sea quarks, 86, 110–11
Sears, Richard, 183
Secret, The (Byrne), 10
Segrè, Emilio, 99