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selectron, 305, 306
SemiConductor Tracker (SCT), 228
senses, 12, 31, 42–43, 69–70, 77–78
Serra, Richard, 265, 265
Shapley, Harlow, 352
Shell Oil Co., 183
shielding, 386–87
shorter-distance theories, 17–18
Sidereus Nuncius (Galileo), 34
signatures, 100, 175–76, 275, 296, 307–8, 320–21, 327, 329, 351
silicon, 226, 227–28
Silver, Nate, 178–79, 198–99
simplicity and beauty, 267–68, 269
singularity, 194
skill and talent, 400–401
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), 100, 105–6, 110
soufflé, 51–52, 52
spacetime, 91, 119, 314, 323–28, 364–65, 365
SpbarpS collider, 130–31
special relativity, 25, 96, 118, 284, 298
spectral lines, 176
speed of light, 8, 103, 228, 245, 251, 277, 282, 346, 349–50, 422n
Spielberg, Steven, 9
Spiropulu, Maria, 300
spontaneous symmetry breaking, 263–64, 268, 283, 285
spyglass, 32
squark, 308–10, 309
SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device), 385
SSC, see Superconducting Super Collider
stadia, 422n
Standard Model, 97–101, 105–9, 130–31, 181–82, 243–54, 273
and background events, 164, 209
elements of, 114–15, 115, 242
graphical summary of, 254–55
LHC measurements, 211–13
reaching beyond at LHC, 114–19
search for Higgs boson, 286–96
particles, 222–23, 241–54
and supersymmetry, 302, 303, 304, 304–5
Standard Model forces, 88–90, 89
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 100, 105–6, 110
stars, 32, 34, 174, 346, 358, 369, 390
Star Trek, 169
statistical uncertainty, 203–4
statistics, 200–201, 209
Stelluti, Francesco, 37
stochastic cooling, 109
stock trades, 191–92
strange quark, 247, 249
Streb, Elizabeth, 7, 15–16, 348, 399
string theory, 92–93, 194–95, 333–42, 351
and extra dimensions, 313–18
and landscape, 338–39
and model building, 334, 339–42
and quantum gravity, 54, 92, 335–36
strong force, 82–86, 88, 104, 114, 115
sublime, 40, 41–43, 42
subprime mortgages, 184
Sun, 35–38, 36, 38, 349–50
Sundrum, Raman, 167, 170, 175, 314, 322–26, 323, 327, 404–5
superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), 385
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), 137, 138, 145–46
superconductivity, 235, 284
superfluid phase, 139
Supernova Cosmology Project, 372
superpartner, 303, 306, 311
Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), 133–36, 134
supersymmetry, 92–93, 302–11, 303, 318
and dark matter, 381–82
and hierarchy problem, 302–3, 306–7, 310–11
and Higgs boson, 288–89, 295–96, 304, 305–6, 311
supersymmetry breaking, 306, 311, 313, 403
symmetry
in art, 266–67, 268
and Higgs mechanism, 278–80, 283–84, 285
systematic error, 425n
systematic uncertainty, 203–4, 425n
systemic risks, 182–83
systems biology, 20
Taj Mahal, 266–67
talent and skill, 400–401
Tale of Genji, 3
tau, 114, 243–244
Taubes, Gary, 405–6
Taylor, Richard, 100
technicolor, 117, 312, 318
technology, 202–3, 356–58
and Galileo, 31–38, 39
and progress, 414–15
Tegmark, Max, 351
telescopes, 32–36, 218, 350, 391
temperature, 19, 19
and LHC, 129, 139, 155
Tennyson, Alfred, xxi
Tevatron, 109, 110, 129, 138, 163, 218, 236
theory of forces, 278–79, 283
theory vs. model, 272
thermodynamics, 18–20, 46–47, 272–73
“thinking outside the box,” 407–8
This Time Is Different (Reinhart and Rogoff), 195–96
thought experiments, and Galileo, 26, 30–31
Tom Jones (Fielding), 3
Tonelli, Guido, 219
“too big to fail” policy, 190
top-down theories, 333, 334–35
top quark, 104, 247, 250–51
trackers
ATLAS, 225–29
CMS, 225–28, 227
transition radiation, 228–29
transition radiation tracker (TRT), 228
triggers, 163, 196, 236–40
Trinity College (Dublin), 22
truth and beauty in science, 259–75
Tucker-Smith, Dave, 310
Tychonic system, 37–38, 38
uncertainty, xix, 201–6, 412
uncertainty principle, 10, 79–80
UNESCO, 144
unification, 88–90
unified force, 88–90
unified theory, 270, 333–34
see also Grand Unified Theory
universal constant, 123
universal parameters, 17
universe
Big Bang theory, 352–59, 362–64
edge of, 113–24
scaling the, 70–72
tour of, 346–51
see also cosmology
University of California, 98–99, 384
University of Dublin, 21–22
University of Padua, 26–28, 74–75