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323, 327, 365, 389, 405

in the bulk 405

and supersymmetry 346, 347

interactions 201, 208, 231, 323

intrinsic spin 281, 323

and mass 208–9, 210, 213–20, 241–2, 245, 247, 249, 251, 254, 324–5, 325, 394

polarizations 197, 209, 217; see also mass

strong see gluons

and symmetry 197, 200–201

weak see weak gauge bosons

gaugino mediation 347–8

gauginos 263, 345–6, 350

Gauss, Carl Friedrich 104–5, 106

Geiger, Hans 126–7

Gell-Mann, Murray 171, 172, 176, 228n

general relativity 58, 85–6, 95–114,

and black holes 67, 112

and brane-worlds 83

and curvature of spacetime 103

fails when applied to tiny length scales 278

and a fourth dimension 34

and GPS 84–5, 113

and quantum mechanics 278–83, 301

and special relativity 94

and string theory 68, 95

tests of 100–102

generations 175–6, 177

geodesics 108–9, 111

geometry

differential 106, 108

Euclid’s five fundamental postulates 104

five-dimensional 388, 388, 390

higher-dimensional 343–4, 387

non-Euclidean 104–7

spacetime 110, 111, 112, 309, 478n32

warped see warped geometry, RS1, RS2

Georgi, Howard 68, 233–8, 270, 296

Georgi-Glashow Grand Unification symmetry group 476n22

Giudice, Gian 346

Glashow, Sheldon 68, 163, 168–9, 217, 233–8, 270, 296

Gliozzi, Ferdinando 262

Global Positioning System (GPS) 84–5, 111

gluinos 263, 269, 478n30

gluons 156, 171, 173, 174, 182, 200–201, 232, 378–9, 379, 404

Goldberger, Walter 402, 403, 404

Golden, Mitch 187, 188

Gol’fand, Y.A. 259n, 261

Grand Unified Theory (GUT) 222, 233–8, 239, 241, 246

Georgi-Glashow paper (1974) 235–6

the hierarchy problem in 243–6

and the Hoøava-Witten brane-world 332

proton decay prediction 236–7

and RS1 404–7

scale mass 247, 248

and string theory 293, 301

gravitational constant 145, 187, 398

gravitational field lines 424–5, 426

gravitational fields 153

and general relativity 109, 278

localized near a brane 426

and the spacetime fabric 107, 109, 111, 114

see also ADD; locally localized gravity; RS1; RS2

gravitational force law 42–6, 86–8, 145, 251, 279, 281, 367, 370, 373, 374, 376, 429, 430, 439, 443

with extra dimensions 42–8

gravitational lensing 102

gravitational mass 96

gravitational redshift 100, 101

gravitino 262

graviton 148, 281, 302, 327, 366, 377, 398, 416, 442

and supersymmetry 262

higher-dimensional 378, 387, 392–3, 392, 398

and high-energy interactions 281, 282, 288

and anomaly-mediation 344–5

intrinsic spin 281

KK partners 377–80, 387, 413, 428–32

localized 421–8, 445

mass 442–3

massless 170, 442, 443

probability function 391, 392, 392, 393, 395, 400, 407, 410, 416n, 423–4, 424, 425, 427, 431, 438, 442, 479n35

gravity

and acceleration 86, 87, 96–7, 100, 101, 102–3, 109

and brane-worlds 327–8

and branes 51, 58, 59, 61, 327, 333

and curved space 6, 17

Earth and 86, 87, 98–9

five-dimensional 411, 412, 443

four-dimensional 34, 370, 371, 398, 422, 423, 429, 431, 434, 439, 440, 441–2, 443

higher-dimensional 251–2, 369, 372, 374, 379, 380, 381, 384

inverse square law 43, 45, 46, 145, 279

localized (RS2) 427–8, 432, 436–7, 438, 443

locally localized 437–44

and mass 96, 279

Newtonian (classical) 86–8, 109, 112, 145, 380, 473n8

and Planck scale energy 136, 145, 149, 280, 479n34

and Planck scale length 35, 279–80

and Planck scale mass 249, 371–2

and quantum mechanics 80, 279–81, 293, 294, 295

quantum theory of 145, 282, 301, 316

relating higher-and lower-dimensional gravity 369, 370–71, 374

and spacetime 111

spreads through all dimensions 327, 333

and the Standard Model 78, 249, 291

strength dependent on position along the fifth dimension 61, 393

and string theory 5, 33, 69

and supersymmetry breaking 345

and unification 237

and volume 479n34

weakness of 6, 8, 80, 86, 87, 168, 174, 250, 251, 254–5, 279, 280, 328, 363, 366–9, 371–4, 383, 386, 387, 393, 395, 396, 397, 416n, 417n

see also general relativity

Gravitybrane 392, 393–401, 399, 412–13, 414n, 415n, 417n, 418n, 420, 422–4, 427, 429, 430, 431, 437, 438, 443, 449, 450

Green, Michael 289–92

Greene, Brian: Elegant Universe 37n

Gregory, Ruth 323, 328, 432n

Grojean, Christophe

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