Warped Passages - Lisa Randall [247]
of particles 134–5, 143
see also probability function
wavelength
and momentum 131
of orbiting electrons 128–9, 129
waves
associated with every photon 197
the constant wave 355
oscillations 197–8, 197, 200
probability 148, 355, 356, 357
sound 100
weak charges 163, 212, 213, 214
weak force 78, 144, 156, 161n, 162, 165, 168, 168, 174, 176n, 242, 475
and beta decay 166
and GUT 233
parity violation 293
restricted range 207, 213
strength as a function of energy 231, 235, 270, 272
and symmetry 197, 201, 213, 234
treatment of left/right-handed particles 164–5, 292
violates parity symmetry 163–4, 165
and weak gauge bosons 170, 200
weak gauge bosons 163, 165, 168, 169, 170, 182, 190–91, 200–201, 209, 213–14, 216–20, 241, 242, 245, 247, 249, 251, 254, 394
weak scale energy 144, 149, 222, 249, 255, 255
weak scale length 144–5, 149
weak scale mass 144, 219, 220, 242, 244, 250, 252, 254, 258, 268, 368, 401n, 403, 406
Weakbrane 392, 393, 394, 395, 397–401, 399, 405–8, 410–13, 415–17, 422, 430, 438
Weinberg, Stephen 78, 163, 169, 217, 235
Wess, Julius 259n, 261
Wess-Zumino model 261
Weyl, Hermann 196
Wieman, Carl 148
Wilczek, Frank 232
Wilson, Kenneth 224
winos 269, 271
Wise, Mark B. 402, 403, 404
Wiseman, Toby 432n
Witten, Edward 290, 293, 296, 305, 313, 315, 316, 318–19, 330–31, 332, 369, 452
Wood, Darien 183
Wu, C.S. 164
X-rays 27
Yang, C.N. 164
Yau, Shing-Tung 42
Young, Thomas 134
zero mass 43n, 191
zinos 269
Zumino, Bruno 259n, 261
Zweig, George 171n
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LISA RANDALL is an expert on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, she has been a tenured professor at Princeton, MIT, and Harvard, and she is one of the most highly cited physicists in her field. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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* We’ll discuss the Standard Model further in Chapter 7.
* For British readers, a child’s climbing frame.
* Questions I’ve actually been asked.
* If you’re picky, you’ll object that Sam too has an age and therefore another dimension. However, I’ve assumed that Sam has been the same way for years so his age isn’t relevant.
* This and other superscript numbers (1, 2,…) refer to the Math Notes at the end of the book.
* Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (London: Puffin Books, 1998).
† The full title is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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* This animated film, directed by Eric Martin, featured the voices of Dudley Moore and