Warped Passages - Lisa Randall [238]
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