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Farewell to Reality

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by Jim Baggott


  mis-selling of the superstring

  programme 205—7

  multiverse and 224—6, 229—31

  reality check 202—5

  the graviton and 188—9

  Witten and the first

  superstring revolution 190—2

  supersymmetry (SUSY) ix, x, 163—5, 187, 205n, 208, 209, 231, 261, 288, 299, 300

  assumption 164

  breaking 174, 190

  convergence of subatomic

  forces and 170

  derived from string theory

  argument 187

  end of 179—81

  hierarchy problem and 168—9

  MSSM and 165—6, 165n, 166, 167, 169

  split 180

  supergravity and 172—4, 190

  superpartners 165—8, 172

  superstring theory and 187—8

  SUSY reality check/weighing

  the evidence 174—8

  SUSY, LSP and the problem

  of dark matter 170, 178

  symmetry between fermions

  and bosons and 162—5

  weakening of grip of 299

  WIMPS, search for and 178—80

  symmetry 118, 119, 121, 132, 141, 155—9

  and development of SUSY 162—5 see also

  supersymmetry

  and search for grand

  unification 159—62

  continuous symmetry

  transformations 155—9

  spontaneous symmetry-

  breaking 68—73, 130, 139, 141, 142, 155, 162, 165—8, 170, 174, 288

  Susskind, Leonard 185, 223—4, 226, 231, 250—1, 252, 269, 281, 293—4, 296

  tachyons 187, 188, 194

  Tammy Kitzmiller et al. vs

  Dover Area School District

  et al. 271, 273

  Tao of Physics, The (Capra) 180

  tau 75, 77n, 137, 138

  taxonomy, particle 64—5

  Tegmark, Max 214—15, 218, 236—7, 238, 253

  Templeton Prize 274

  Templeton, Sir John 274

  tensor 60

  Testability Principle 20, 131, 176, 233, 259, 291, 293

  Texas, University of 193

  theoretical physicists, intelligence of 287—91

  theorizing as a creative process 14—15

  Theory Principle, The 17, 21, 130, 195

  Thirring, Hans 100

  ‘thought experiments’, Einstein

  challenges Bohr with 42—6, 50

  time see spacetime

  Tipler, Frank 270, 279

  Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro 63

  Trivedi, Sandip 225

  Turok, Neil 227, 228

  Tye, Henry 119

  U (1) quantum field theory of

  electromagnetism 158, 159, 162

  U (1) symmetery group 158, 183n

  uncertainty principle, the 38—40, 41, 79, 143, 144, 147, 147n, 228, 248

  upsilon 75

  Uranus 18—19

  US National Accelerator

  Laboratory 72 see also

  Fermilab

  US National Bureau of

  Standards, Washington,

  D.C. 66

  Utrecht, University of 253

  vacuum:

  catastrophe 143—5

  false 69, 70, 79, 120

  quantum fluctuations of the 40—2, 68, 143—5, 161, 278

  state 68

  van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter van 173

  vector 60—1

  veiled reality 6—8

  Veltman, Martinus 71, 188, 202

  Veneziano, Gabriele 185, 195

  Veracity Principle 22, 102, 131, 259, 285

  verifiability 18, 19—20

  Vienna Circle 18

  Vienna, University of 51

  Vilenkin, Alexander 222

  von Neuman, John 209—10

  W and Z particles 67, 68, 70, 71, 75, 118, 130, 136n, 159, 166, 288

  Warped Passages (Randall) 205—6

  wave behaviour 28, 31

  collapse of the wavefunction 35—8, 42, 45, 47, 50, 52, 132, 133, 182, 209—10, 212, 214, 218, 240

  decoherence, amplification

  and 211—13

  Einstein’s light quantum

  hypothesis and 28—30

  gravity and light wave 98—9

  hidden variables and 47, 48, 49

  Leggett’s inequality and 52

  parity of 65—6

  photon see photons

  pilot waves 210—11

  Schrödinger’s cat and 132, 133, 134—5

  spooky action-at-a-distance

  and 42—3, 44, 45

  uncertainty principle and 39—40

  Von Neuman’s ‘projection

  postulate’ and 209—10

  wave mechanics 58, 59

  wave particle duality 30—1, 286

  ‘wavefunction of the universe’ 216

  weak neutral currents 72

  weak nuclear force 57—8, 66, 67—8, 71, 72, 78, 103, 104, 117, 117, 170, 182

  Weakly Interacting Massive

  Particles (WIMPs) 124, 124n, 141, 172, 174, 178—9, 180

  Weinberg, Steven 70—1, 72, 117, 118, 141, 170, 278, 279, 280, 288, 296

  Wess, Julius 163

  Wheeler, John 97, 147, 215, 216, 246, 247, 267

  white dwarf star 125—6

  Wilczek, Frank 141

  Wilkinson Microwave

  Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 121—2, 127, 128

  Wilkinson, David 114, 115

  Williams, Robert 276

  Wilson, Robert 115

  Witten, Edward 190—1, 192, 194, 197, 198, 199, 201, 226, 254

  Woit, Peter 174, 190—1, 231

  X bosons 160, 161

  XENON100

  experiment, Gran

  Sasso National Laboratory,

  Italy 179

  Yau, Shing-Tung 193—4, 204

  Yeshiva University 185

  Zeh, Dieter 211—12

  Zangger, Heinrich 183

  zino 166, 167, 172, 177

  Zumino, Bruno 163

  Zwicky, Fritz 123, 125

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