The God Particle
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], [>]
vs. quantum theory, [>], [>]
Deuteron, [>], [>]
Dileptons, [>]
Dimuon experiment, [>]–[>], [>]
Brookhaven repeat of, [>]
and charm quark, [>]
Dirac, Paul, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Dirac equation, [>], [>]
Discharge tube, [>]
Distribution curve, [>]
Donahue, Phil, [>], [>]
Double-slit experiment, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Down quark, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Drake, Stillman, [>]
Drell, Sidney, [>]
Drell-Yan experiment, [>]–[>], [>]
Dyson, Freeman, [>]
Eastern religious mysticism. See Mysticism
Eddington, Sir Arthur, [>]
Eddy currents, [>]
E = mc2, [>]–[>], [>]
Einstein, Albert, [>], [>], [>]
and aether; [>], [>]
and black body radiation, [>]
Bronowski on, [>]
and de Broglie, [>]
and E = mc2, [>]–[>], [>]
and free fall, [>]
on God playing dice, [>], [>]
on knowing God's mind, [>], [>]
on Maxwell, [>]
Nobel Prize to, [>]
Pauli letter to, [>]
and photoelectric effect, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and photons, [>]–[>], [>]
and positive electron, [>]
and quantum theory, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
relativity theory of general, [>], [>], [>], [>]
special, [>], [>], [>]
as scientific revolutionary, [>]
on "spontaneous transitions," [>]
The Story of Relativity by, [>]
and unified theory, [>], [>]
Eisenhower, Dwight, [>], [>]
Electric charge, of particles, [>]
Electricity and electrical forces, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and atom, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
development of understanding of, [>]
investigators of, [>]–[>], [>] (see also individuals)
long-range inverse-square law of, [>]
and magnetism, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Newton's laws, [>]
Electrochemistry, [>]–[>], [>]
Electrolysis, Faraday's laws of, [>]
Electromagnetic wave, [>], [>]
Electromagnetism, [>]–[>], [>]
and alpha (1/137), [>]
and cathode rays, [>]–[>]
and classical era, [>]
and light, [>]
and radioactivity, [>]
in standard model, [>]
Electron(s), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and accelerator; [>], [>], [>], [>]
and alpha (1/137), [>]
charge of, [>], [>]
and classical theory, [>]
coining of term, [>], [>]
discovery of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and double-slit experiment, [>]–[>]
and exclusion principle, [>]–[>]
and flavor, [>]
g-value of, [>]–[>], [>]
as lepton, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
mass of, [>], [>], [>]
and photoelectric effect, [>]
and photons, [>]
probabilities associated with (quantum theory), [>]–[>]
and radioactivity, [>]–[>]
shells of, [>]–[>]
"spin" of, [>], [>], [>]
and standard model, [>]
and strong force, [>]–[>]
and uncertainty principle, [>]–[>]
and virtual photon, [>]
wavelength of, [>]–[>]
as wave, [>]–[>]
See also Atom, modern conception of
Electronic salvage, [>]
Electron neutrino, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Electron volt (eV), defined, [>]
Electroweak theory or force, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Elements
periodic table of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
in space, [>]
Ellis, Charles D., [>]
Ellis, John, [>]
elm (charge/mass ratio), [>]–[>]
Empedocles, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Empty space. See Void
Energy, [>]–[>]
of accelerators, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and antimatter [>]
conservation of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and electron volts, [>]
and Higgs field, [>], [>]–[>]
kinetic, [>]
potential, [>]
quantum of, [>]–[>]
Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA), [>]
Eötvös, Baron Roland, [>], [>]
EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) thought experiment, [>]–[>], [>]
Equations, meaning of, [>]–[>]
Ether. See Aether
Eureka moments, [>]–[>]
Experiment(s), [>]–[>]
and assumptions, [>]
and Greek philosophers, [>]–[>]
Heisenberg on interpreting, [>]
and instruments, [>]–[>]
in seventeenth century, [>]
as test of ideas, [>]
in thought, [>], [>]–[>]
See also Accelerators, particle
Experimenters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Faraday as, [>]–[>]
Rutherford as, [>]
Faraday, Michael, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Bronowski on, [>]
and electric charge, [>]
Fermi (unit of size), [>]
Fermi, Enrico, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
congressional testimony of, [>]
and radioactivity, [>]
and Scuola Normale, [>]
and weak force, [>], [>], [>]
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
accelerators at, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and neutral currents, [>]
and quark experiments, [>]–[>]
and superconductivity, [>]
(see also Tevatron)
astrophysicists at, [>]
"bump" experiment at, [>]
Collider Detector Facility at, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
neutrino beams at, [>]
and SSC, [>]
tau neutrino mass experiment at, [>]
upsilon discovery at, [>]
and Wilson, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Wilson, Robert R.)
Fermions, [>], [>]
Feynman, Richard P., [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Challenger disaster, [>]
and Drell-Yan experiment, [>]
and infinities, [>], [>]
and jets of hadrons, [>]
and muon, [>], [>]
and proton experiment, [>]
and QED, [>]
and quantum theory, [>], [>]
and renormalization, [>]
and weak force, [>], [>]
Fields of force, [>]–[>], [>]
and Boscovich, [>], [>]–[>]
and electromagnetism, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and Faraday, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Higgs, [>], [>], [>]–[>] (see also Higgs field or particle)
and quantum electrodynamics, [>]–[>]
Fifth force, [>]–[>]
Fine structure, [>]
Fine-structure constant, [>]
Fitch, Val, [>]–[>]
Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis, [>]
Flatlander metaphor, [>]
Flatness problem, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
"Flavor," [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Force(s)
atoms surrounded by, [>]
and class
ical era, [>]
fields of, [>], [>]–[>] (see also Fields of force)
and Higgs particle, [>]
and matter; [>]
and Newton's laws, [>]–[>]
in standard model, [>], [>]
types of
electromagnetic, [>]–[>]
electroweak, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
gravity, [>], [>]
strong, [>], [>], [>], [>]
weak, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
see also particular forces
unification of, [>] (see also Unification)
Force carriers, [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Messenger particles
Franklin, Benjamin, [>], [>]
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Friedman, Jerome, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Fringe field focusing, [>]–[>]
Fukui, Shuji, [>]
Gaia hypothesis, [>]
Gaillard, Mary, [>], [>]
Galilei, Galileo, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and accelerators, [>]
and Aristotle, [>], [>]–[>]
as astrologer, [>]
on atoms, [>], [>]
attitudes of, [>], [>]–[>]
Church condemnation of, [>], [>]
on constant velocity, [>]
and Copernican system, [>]–[>]
and evolution of science, [>], [>]
experiments of, [>]–[>]
and imperfect conditions, [>]
with inclined plane, [>]–[>]
and Leaning Tower of Pisa, [>]–[>]
and how vs. why, [>]
and inertia, [>]
and Kepler, [>]
on light, [>]–[>], [>]
and Newton's first law of motion, [>], [>]
telescopes made by, [>], [>]
and theory-experiment relation, [>]
upbringing of, [>]–[>]
and vacuum problem, [>]
Galilei, Vincenzo, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Galvani, Luigi, [>]
Gamow, George, [>]–[>]
Garwin, Richard, [>]–[>]
Gauge bosons, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Gauge symmetry, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Gauge theories, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Gauss, C. F., [>]
Geiger, Hans, [>], [>], [>]
Geller Uri, [>]
Gell-Mann, Murray, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Germer, Lester [>]
g-factor
of electron, [>]–[>], [>]
of muon, [>]–[>]
Glaser, Donald, [>], [>]
Glashow, Sheldon, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Glass, Bentley, [>]
Glazebrook, Sir Richard, [>]
Gluons, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and protons, [>], [>]
and quark experiments, [>]
g minus 2 experiment, [>]–[>], [>]
God
and Newtonian determinism, [>]
and science, [>]
God Particle, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and electron, [>]
energy needed to crack, [>]
and muon/electron, [>]
and quantum theory, [>], [>]
in Very New Testament, [>]
See also Higgs field or particle
Goldstone, Jeffrey, [>], [>], [>]
Gottingen school, of physicists, [>]
Goudsmit, Samuel, [>]
Grand unification theories (GUTs), [>], [>]–[>]
Graviton, [>], [>], [>]
Gravity, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and beginning of universe, [>]
Boscovich on, [>]
and classical era, [>]
counterforce to, [>]
Einstein on, [>]
vs. electrical force, [>]
and Newton, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and quantum theory, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and standard model, [>], [>], [>]
and strong force, [>]
and supersymmetry, [>]
weakness of, [>], [>]–[>]
and "weightlessness," [>]–[>]
Green, Michael, [>]
Gross, David, [>], [>]
Guth, Alan, [>], [>]
GUTs (grand unification theories), [>]–[>]
Hadrons, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
decay of, [>]
family clusters of, [>]
jets of, [>]–[>], [>]
and quarks, [>], [>]
and strong force, [>]
Halpern, Isaac, [>]
Hanson, Gail, [>]
Hartle, Jim, [>]
Harvey, Jeff, [>]
Hawking, Stephen, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Heat, [>], [>]
Heisenberg, Werner, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Heisenberg uncertainty principle or relations, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Democritus, [>]
and distribution of masses, [>]
and double-slit experiment, [>], [>]
and mass of particle, [>], [>]
and temporary particles, [>]
Heraclitus, [>]
Herb, Steve, [>], [>]
Hertz, Heinrich, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Hidden-variable hypothesis, [>]
Higgs, Peten [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Higgs field or particle (Higgs boson), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and decay mode, [>]
and electroweak theory, [>]
and energy, [>]–[>]
in futurist dream, [>]
and inflationary Big Bang, [>]–[>]
and mass, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
questions on, [>]
and SSC, [>], [>]
and standard model, [>]
and supersymmetry, [>]
and symmetry, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and unitarity crisis, [>], [>]
in Very New Testament, [>]
and void, [>]
Hofstadter, Robert, [>]–[>]
Hooke, Robert, [>], [>], [>]
Hubble, Edwin, [>]–[>]
Huxley, Thomas, [>]
Huygens, Christian, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Hydrogen atoms, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Hyperons, [>]
Inertia, [>]
Infield, Leopold, [>]
Infinity, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Inflationary Big Bang model, [>]–[>]
Inflationary universe, [>]
Innes, Walter, [>]
Inverse-square law, [>], [>]
Ions, [>], [>]
Isospin, [>]
Isotropy crisis, [>]
Jets, of hadrons, [>]
Johnson, Lyndon, [>]
Johnston, Bennett, [>]–[>]
Joule, James, [>]
Joyce, James, and "quark," [>]
J/psi, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Kaons, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
negative (K−), [>], [>], [>]
neutral (K0), [>], [>]
positive (K+), [>], [>], [>]
Kaufmann, Walter, [>]–[>], [>]
Kelvin, Lord, [>], [>]
Kendall, Henry, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Kepler, Johannes, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Klein, Martin, [>]
Kolb, Rocky, [>]
Kosmos, [>]
Kusch, Polykarp, [>], [>]
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, [>]
Lamb, Willis, [>], [>], [>]
Lambda particle, [>], [>], [>]
Lasers, [>]
Lattes, Cesare, [>], [>]
Lauritsen, Charles, [>]
Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent, [>], [>]–[>]
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Leaning Tower of Pisa, [>], [>], [>]