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University of Utah, 40, 41
University of Washington, 400
up quark, 82, 83, 115, 247
Uranus, 368
vacuum, 280–81, 285
energy, 374–75
valence quarks, 85–86, 110
van der Meer, Simon, 108–9
Vanity Fair, 128
vector boson, 108–9
vector calculus, 22
Venus, 35–36, 36
VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescopic Array System), 391
Vicente, Mark, 10–11, 201
violet light, 77, 77–78
virtual particle, 84–85, 87, 288, 289, 298
visible light, 95–97
visible universe, 350–51
vision, 94, 95–97
volume, 19, 19
Vulcan, 367
W boson, 108
Wagner, Walter, 167, 181
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 409
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich), 42
warped extra dimension, 322–30, 323, 404–5
warped geometry, 323, 324–30, 326
Warped Passages (Randall), xvii, 247, 338, 411, 417
wavelengths, 95–97
wave theory of light, 23–25
weak boson, see weak gauge boson
Weakbrane, 323, 324–26, 325
weak energy scale, 115, 118–19
weak force, 108–9, 114, 130, 251–54, 268, 280, 283–85, 425n
weak force carrier see weak gauge boson
weak gauge boson (weak boson, weak force carrier, weak vector boson), 108–9, 115, 116–17, 130, 251–54, 252, 281–82, 292, 292
weak mass scale, 296, 298, 319, 327, 377, 380–82
weak vector boson, see weak gauge boson
Weinberg, Steven, 26
Weiner, Neal, 384
West Side Story (musical), 247–49, 248
What the Bleep Do We Know!? (movie), 10–11
white dwarfs, 174
Wilczek, Frank, 263
Wilkinson, David, 364
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), 364–66, 372
Wilson, Robert, 356–58
WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle), 381, 383
wino, 305
Witten, Edward, 26
World Wide Web (WWW), 239–40
xenon experiments, 384, 385, 387–88
XENON10 Dark Matter Search Experiment, 386, 387
XENON100 Dark Matter Search Experiment, 384, 386, 387–88
Young, Thomas, 23–24
Zanonato, Flavio, 27
Z boson, 108–9, 130, 251–54, 281–82, 292
ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Detector, 384
Zinn, Kai, 401
Zweig, George, 82, 262
Zwicky, Fritz, 369
Zwirner, Fabio, 26–27
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book covers a lot of ground and I was fortunate to have had many wonderfully generous and thoughtful people providing guidance throughout. Knowing I could count on keen minds to reflect on even early incarnations of this work was a powerful incentive when moving forward. I am especially grateful to Andreas Machl, Luboš Motl, and Cormac McCarthy, all of whom read more than one draft of the book and provided valuable feedback during its different stages. Cormac’s high standards, patience, and belief in “my project,” Luboš’s precision as a physicist and care for science communication, and Andreas’s wisdom, enthusiasm, and consistent support were invaluable.
Others’ edits, input, and enthusiasm also mattered a great deal. Anna Christina Buchmann was delightfully insightful, smart, and kind with her suggestions and contributions; Jen Sacks helped me through moments of indecision with wisdom and care; Polly Shulman provided important direction and encouragement early on; Brad Farkas’s interest and sharp editorial pen helped solidify my enterprise; and the keen eye and overwhelming skill of my British editor, Will Sulkin, improved some key chapters at a critical stage. Thanks, too, are owed to Bob Cahn, Kevin Herwig, Dilani Kahawala, David Krohn, and Jim Stone for their proofreading and suggestions after reading a more final draft.
For helping get details of both the LHC machine and the ATLAS and CMS experiments correct, I am very grateful to the physicists Fabiola Gianotti and Tiziano Camporesi, who know their detectors as well as is humanly possible. And who could be better than Lyn Evans for reading over my writing about the LHC and its history? Thanks also to Doug Finkbeiner, Howie Haber, John Huth, Tom Imbo, Ami Katz, Matthew Kleban, Albion Lawrence, Joe Lykken, John Mason, Rene Ong, Brian Shuve, Robert Wilson, and Fabio Zwirner who also generously commented on some of the physics sections. Thanks as well to my 2010 and 2011 Harvard freshman seminar classes for their input about their understanding of the LHC.
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