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Gross, David 232, 291, 296–7, 330, 454
Grossmann, Marcel 107, 108
GUT see Grand Unified Theory
hadrons 171, 172, 174, 233, 285–8
Halley, Edmund 87
handedness 164–5, 165, 167–8, 168, 175
Harvard University 68, 231, 235, 296, 309, 337, 363, 435
Jefferson Laboratory 101, 161
Harvey, Jeffrey 291, 330, 336
Harvey, William 76
Hawking, Stephen 6, 432n, 435
Hawking radiation 380
heavy elements 162
Heckel, Blayne 374, 375
Heisenberg, Werner 118–19, 137–8
uncertainty principle see uncertainty principle
helium 162
heterotic string 291–2, 296–7, 330, 331
hierarchy problem 196, 240–55, 255, 301, 386
in a GUT 243–6, 247
and large extra dimensions (ADD) 368–9, 384, 394, 402
and new length scales 332
and supersymmetry 258, 264–6, 270, 275, 276, 336
and RS1 394, 395, 338, 406, 410–14, 428, 458
Higgs, Peter 204
Higgs fields 211–18
Higgs mechanism 196, 211–20, 248
and electromagnetism 205, 217
and particle masses 170, 204, 211, 212, 214, 219, 241, 254, 348
and spontaneous symmetry breaking 191, 201, 204, 208, 212, 214–17, 220, 241
Higgs particles (Higgs bosons) 211, 212, 219, 409, 476n20
breaking electroweak symmetry 388
confined to the Weakbrane 413
and a GUT 244
and the hierarchy problem 410
light 219, 244–5, 248, 253, 254, 264, 266, 268, 275–6, 276
mass 245, 247, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 252, 253, 258, 264, 266, 268, 269, 368, 372, 394, 406; quantum contributions to 246–9, 247, 265, 265, 340, 343
Higgsino 263
high-energy experiments 72–3
holography 21, 28
Holton, Gerald 114
Hooke, Robert 87, 88
Hoøava, Petr 306, 330–31, 332, 369
Hoøava-Witten model see HW
Horowitz, Gary 293, 298, 432n
Hubble, Edwin 298
Hull, Chris 316
Hupfeld, Herman 64
HW 237, 330–33
hydrogen 162
hypercubes 19–20, 20, 27, 27
hyperspheres 19, 46
indirect interactions 228, 229
inertial mass 96
inertial reference frames 91, 95, 99, 473n8
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 449
Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle 274
internal symmetry see symmetry
International Supersymmetry Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1994) 274
intrinsic spin 146–7, 148, 164, 258
inverse square law 43, 46, 48, 87–8, 222, 279, 438
Irvine/Michigan/Brookhaven (IMB) experiment, Homestake Mine, South Dakota 237
Jackiw, Roman 290
jets 174, 233, 378, 379
Johns Hopkins University 437
Jonsson, Claus 133
Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake 171–2
Kakushadze, Zurab 329
Kaloper, Nemanja 432n
Kaluza, Theodor 34, 64, 419
Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes 352n
Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles 8, 148, 351–61
and ADD 377–380, 384, 457–8
and RS1 387, 407–11, 457–8
and RS2 428–32
and KR 443
spin value 409
and T-duality 451
Kaluza-Klein universe 34–5, 38–9
Kamiokande experiment, Kamioka, Japan 237
Kaplan, David B. 274, 347
Karch, Andreas 7, 434, 437, 439, 441
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara 50–51, 390, 434, 435–6
Kendall, Henry 174
Ketterle, Wolfgang 147
Klein, Oskar 34–5, 38
Kogan, Ian 443
Kounnas, Costas, 348n
KR see locally localized gravity
Kribs, Graham 347
Kutasov, David 435
Lake Geneva 188
Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) see under CERN
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) see under CERN
lasers 147
Lawrence, Albion 73, 74
Lee, T.D. 164
Leigh, Rob 306
Lenin, Vladimir I.: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism 152
LEP (Large Electron-Positron collider) 184, 186–8
Lepton-Photon Conference (2001) 402
leptons 175, 177–8, 190, 213–14, 216, 218–20, 241, 348
and GUT 234, 236
handedness 165, 168
intrinsic spin 281
and supersymmetry 263
trapped on a brane 365
see also electrons; muons; neutrinos; taus
LHC (Large Hadron Collider) 8, 145, 185, 186, 189, 211, 219, 254, 255, 269, 378, 380, 381, 383, 384, 407, 411, 412, 457, 458
light
bending of 101–2, 103
and branes 57–8
composed of photons 136, 147
energy carried by light as discontinuous 9
monochromatic 134
Planck’s quantization rule 121, 123
polarization of 197
speed of see speed of light
white 173, 196, 200
light quanta 9–10, 118, 123–5, 148
light waves 100
Likhtman, E.P. 259n, 261
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich 104–5
local interactions