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By Root 734 0

two branes and the hierarchy problem (RS1) 394, 395, 428, 436

violation of spacetime symmetries 308

see also brane-worlds; D-branes; Do-branes; p-branes

bulk 53, 53, 55, 59, 61, 112, 305, 306, 326, 327, 332, 349, 363, 366, 367, 389, 403–6, 406, 413, 429, 443

Calabi, Eugenio 42

Calabi-Yau compactification 297–8

Calabi-Yau manifolds 42, 293, 332, 451–2

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 402

Cambridge University 313

Candelas, Philip 293

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland 31, 414n

Through the Looking Glass 414n

CAT (computer-assisted tomography) scans 27

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 127

CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) 181–3

CERN (European Organization for Particle Research) 8–9, 145, 184–6, 185, 188, 219, 241, 382

see also LEP; LHC

Chacko, Zacharia 347

Chadwick, James 127

Chamblin, Andrew 432n

chirality 164

Coleman, Sidney 117, 232, 257

Collider Detector at Fermilab see CDF

colliders see particle colliders

color-neutral combinations 172

colors 172–3, 196, 234

compact spaces 41–2

compactification 292, 293n

compactified dimensions see rolled-up dimensions

Compton scattering 124–5, 125

constant wave 355

Contino, Roberto 409n

Copernican Revolution 439

Copernicus, Nicolas 7

Cornell, Eric 147

Cornell University 329

cosmological constant 299

see also dark energy; vacuum energy

cosmology 51, 111, 112, 116, 122, 296, 349, 383, 404, 456–7

Csaki, Csaba 409

cubes 20, 23, 24, 104

cubism 25-6

curled-up dimensions see rolled-up dimensions

curvature 105–6, 105, 112

negative 389

positive 390

D-branes 306–7, 309, 310, 320, 323, 324, 449

Do experiment 181, 182, 183, 183

Do-branes 319, 452, 453

Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 17–18

Dai, Jin 306

Dali, Salvador: Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) 26

dark energy 9, 61, 271n

see also cosmological constant; vacuum energy

dark matter

defined 270–71

effects on matter surrounding it 9

and supersymmetry 270–71

surmised from its gravitational effects 61

Darwin, Charles 162, 163

The Origin of Species 162

de Broglie, Prince Louis 130, 131, 143

de Sitter, Willem 390

de Sitter space 390

deep inelastic scattering experiment (Friedman-Kendall-Taylor) 173–4

Delta particle 171

detectors 181–3, 183

dimensions 11–30

and boundary branes 52–3

fermionic 261

number of 13, 15, 161, 448

and string theory 301

see also extra dimensions; rolled-up dimensions

Dimopoulos, Savas 348, 349, 363–9, 371–4, 376, 377, 379, 380, 381, 383

see also ADD model

Dirac, Paul 156–7, 159

Dirichlet, Peter 306

distance dependence 221, 222, 227–33, 246

double-slit experiment 133–5, 134, 135 474n11

duality 304, 310–322, 30

and warped geometry 449–50

duck analogy 424, 425, 427, 440, 442

Duff, Michael 304, 315

Durham University 323

Dvali, Gia 363–4, 382, 364–9, 371–4, 376, 377, 379, 380, 381, 383

see also ADD model

E = mc2 101, 111, 114, 136, 144, 160, 169, 179, 210, 219, 220, 249

Earth 49, 86–7, 98–9, 11, 162–3, 308, 367

Eddington, Arthur 101

effective field theories 223

effective theory 29–30, 223, 224, 225, 227, 292

Einstein, Albert 90, 113–14, 123–5, 130

in Bern patent office 90, 113–14, 123

and Kaluza’s paper 34

and light quanta 10, 116, 123–5

and Maxwell 155

Nobel Prize for Physics 124

and photoelectric effect 123–4

and relativity 17, 90, 107, 113–14, 155

and time coordination 90

and a unified theory 67

and vacuum energy 298

see also E = mc2; Einstein’s Equations; general relativity; special relativity

Einstein’s Equations 111–13

see also RS1; RS2

“Einstein Cross” 103

electric charge screening 231, 232

electric fields 153, 154, 155

electricity 9, 152, 153, 154

electromagnetic fields 154, 158

electromagnetic force 78, 89–90, 128, 157, 161n, 163, 168, 174, 177, 326, 366–7, 374

classical theory of 89, 96, 153, 155

distance/energy dependence 221–2, 227, 230–31, 235, 242, 270–71

and the electroweak theory 217

and Kaluza’s theory 34

and Newton’s second law of motion 96

and the photon 155–9, 163, 168, 200, 207, 230, 281

and supersymmetry 262

and symmetry 197, 201

electromagnetic waves 89, 128, 155

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