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copyright secured. All rights reserved. “Stuck on You,” by Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland. Copyright © 1960 by Gladys Music, Inc. Copyright renewed and assigned to Gladys Music and Rachel’s Own Music. All rights for Gladys Music administered by Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company Inc. and Chrysalis Music. All rights for Rachel’s Own Music administered by A. Schroeder International LLC. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Portrait of Dora Maar, by Pablo Picasso, copyright © 2004 the Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), by Salvador Dali, copyright © 2004 the Estate of Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Top quark image (Chapter 8) courtesy of Fermilab. Eöt-Wash apparatus (Chapter 19) courtesy University of Washington Eöt-Wash Group. Large Hadron Collider aerial image (Chapter 8) courtesy of CERN. “You Were Meant for Me,” from Singin’ in the Rain and The Broadway Melody, written by Arthur Freed and Nancio Herb Brown ©2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Numbers in italics indicate Figures.

Abbott, Edwin A.: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 18–19, 31, 52

acceleration 86, 87, 95–7, 100, 102–3, 109, 110

action at a distance 154

ADD see Arkani-Hamed; Dimopoulos; Dvali

ADD model 363–83, 395

Adelberger, Eric 374, 375

Adler, Steven 290

aether 89–90, 155

Agashe, Kaustubh 409n

Akulov, V.P. 259n

alpha particles 127, 173

Alvarez-Gaume, Luis 290

American Physical Society 235

anarchic principle 227–8, 238–9, 329, 335, 339–43, 349

angular momentum 55

anomalies 289–90, 342

anomaly mediation 345, 346–7

anthropic principle 300

anti de Sitter space 389–90, 407, 449, 450

antimuons 273

antineutrinos 166

antiparticles 159–61, 179, 226, 231

antiprotons 181, 182

antiquarks 172, 173, 233, 379

Antoniadis, Ignatius 359–60

Aristotle 66, 67

Arkani-Hamed, Nima 348, 349, 363–9, 371–4, 376, 377, 379, 380, 381, 383

see also ADD model

Aspen Center for Physics 410, 411

astrophysics 456

atomic clocks 113

atoms 76–7, 82, 117–18, 123, 126–9, 147

Bacon, Francis 339

Banks, Tom 390, 452–3

Bell, John 290

Bern patent office 90, 113, 123

Berners-Lee, Tim 186

beta decay 166, 166, 167, 168, 169

Big Bang 79, 179, 250, 282, 299

black holes 67, 112–13, 251, 280, 282–3, 454

higher-dimensional 8, 81, 380, 407, 11, 456–7

p-branes 309

Schwarzschild and 67, 113

blackbodies 120–23, 122

blackbody spectra 122–3

Blondel, Alain 188

Bohr, Niels 118, 126, 128–30, 129, 355

Boltzmann’s constant 474n10

Bolyai, Farkas 105n

Bolyai, János 105

Born, Max 131

Bose, Satyendra Nath 146

Bose-Einstein condensates 147–8

bosons 146–7, 149, 477n23

gauge see gauge bosons

integer spin 146, 258, 260

and supersymmetry 257–60, 264–5

Boston University 337, 441

boundary conditions 49

Bousso, Raphael 99

brane-worlds 7, 58–62, 83, 321–33

confining particles on different branes 335, 349

new length scales introduced into physics 332

particles and strings and branes 323–7

preservation of supersymmetry 343

see also ADD model; HW; locally localized gravity; RS1; RS2; sequestered supersymmetry breaking

branes 6, 7, 49–53, 53, 54–62, 305–6, 444,

boundary 49, 52–5, 330, 332, 371, 386, 387, 388, 390

dimensionality of 57, 112, 304, 306

interaction 307

non-boundary 55, 410–11

nonzero charge 307–8

and parallel worlds 60–61

and particles 55, 57, 59, 59, 60, 61, 349

and string theory 6, 51, 57, 58–9, 61, 303–33

tension 306, 307–8

trapped on 55–9, 61, 62, 323, 327, 328, 330–33, 344, 363–6, 375, 383, 388, 388