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and reality, [>]
Ting on, [>]
Theory, [>]
as description of experience, [>]
and experiment, [>]
in seventeenth century, [>]
Theory of Everything (TOE), [>]–[>], [>]
Thomson, George P., [>], [>]–[>]
Thomson, Joseph John, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and Bohr, [>]
and Cavendish Laboratory, [>], [>]
and discharge tubes, [>]
't Hooft, Gerard, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Three-neutrino experiment, [>]
Time, meaning of, [>]–[>]
Ting, Samuel C. C., [>], [>], [>]
Tinlot, John, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Tollestrup, Alvin, [>]
Tomonaga, Sinitiro, [>], [>], [>]
Top (truth) quark, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Torricelli, Evangelista, [>]–[>]
Tortella, Gabriel, [>]
Townes, Charles, [>], [>]
Transistor quantum theory and, [>]–[>]
Translation, of space and time, [>]
"Triggers," in Collider Detector Facility, [>]
T-shirt, ultimate, [>]–[>]
Tunneling, [>]–[>]
Turner Frederick, [>]
Turner, Mike, [>]
Tuve, Merle, [>]
Two-neutrino experiment, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Uhlenbeck, George, [>]
"Ultraviolet catastrophe," [>]
Uncertainty principle. See Heisenberg uncertainty principle or relations
Unification, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and asymptotic freedom of quarks, [>]
and grand unification theories, [>], [>]–[>]
and hypothetical particles, [>]
quest for [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Unitarity crisis, [>], [>]–[>]
and Higgs particle, [>], [>]
Universe(s)
birth of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and accelerators, [>]–[>], [>]
The First Three Minutes on, [>]–[>]
bubble, [>], [>]
closed vs. open, [>]–[>]
composition of, [>]–[>]
contraction/expansion of, [>]–[>]
earliest stages of, [>], [>]
expansion of, [>]–[>]
inflationary, [>]
lumpiness of, [>]–[>]
observable radius of, [>]
reality of, [>]
temperature of, [>], [>]
unlimited number of, [>]
Up quark, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Upsilon particle, [>], [>]–[>]
Vacuum. See Void
Van de Graaff, Robert, [>]
Van de Graaff generator, [>]
Van der Meer, Simon, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Veblen, Thorstein, takeoff on, [>]
Vectors, [>]
Veksler V. I., [>]
Velikovsky, Immanuel, [>]
Velocity of light. See Speed of light
Veltman, Martinus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Veneziano, Gabrielle, [>]
Virtual particles, [>]–[>]
Void (empty space, vacuum), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
aether as, [>], [>], [>]
and apeiron, [>]
Democritus on, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and Higgs idea, [>]
temporary particles in, [>]
and Torricelli, [>]–[>]
and virtual particles, [>]
Volta, Alessandro, [>]–[>]
Walter, Ernest, [>]–[>]
Watt, James, [>]
Wattenberg, Alan, [>]
Wave, [>]
electromagnetic, [>], [>]
electrons as, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
light, [>], [>], [>], [>]
matter, [>], [>]
probability, [>]–[>]
Wave function, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wave-particle conflict. See Particle-wave conflict
Weak force, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and conservation of strangeness, [>]
crises in understanding of, [>]–[>]
and decay, [>]–[>]
Fermi's discovery of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and high energy, [>], [>]
motivation to work on, [>]
and neutrinos, [>], [>]
and Newton, [>]
and parity, [>]–[>], [>]
and quantum field theory, [>]
and quark experiments, [>]
and quark symmetry, [>]
renormalizabie theory of, [>]
in standard model, [>]
study of, [>]–[>]
and symmetry, [>]–[>]
and two-neutrino experiment, [>]–[>]
Weber W. E., [>]
Weichert, Emil, [>]–[>]
Weightlessness, [>]–[>]
Weinberg, Steven, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Weinrich, Marcel, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Weisskopf, Victor [>], [>], [>]
Westfall, Richard, [>]
Wideröe, Rolf, [>], [>], [>]
Wien, Wilhelm, [>]
Wigner Eugene, [>]
Wilczek, Frank, [>], [>]
Will, George, [>]
Wilson, C. T. R., [>]
Wilson, Robert R., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
on accelerator and cathedral, [>]
congressional testimony of, [>], [>]
and discovery of upsilon, [>]
and superconductivity, [>]–[>]
Witten, Edward, [>], [>]
World War II
and Big Science, [>]–[>], [>]
radar technology developed in, [>]
W particles, [>], [>], [>], [>]
discovery of, [>]
mass of, [>], [>]
search for [>], [>]–[>], [>]
as short-lived, [>]
and unitarity crisis, [>]–[>]
W+, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
W− [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wu, Chen Shiung, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Wu, Sau Lan, [>]
X bosons, [>]
Xi particles, [>]
X-rays, [>], [>]
Yan, Tung Mo, [>]
Yang, Chen Ning, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Yoh, John, [>], [>], [>]
Young, Thomas, [>], [>], [>]
Yukawa, Hideki, [>], [>], [>]
Zarlino, Gioseffo, [>]
Zeeman, Pieter [>], [>]
Zeldovich, Yakov, [>]
Z particles, [>], [>], [>]
Z0, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
decay of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and Higgs phenomena, [>], [>]
and neutral currents, [>]
as short-lived, [>], [>]
and weak force, [>]
Zukav, Gary, [>], [>]–[>]
Zweig, George, [>], [>]
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