Farewell to Reality (55 page)

American Museum of

National History, New

York, 2011
206—7

Israel, Werner
247

Jaki, Stanley
274—5

John Templeton Foundation
273—8

Just Six Numbers
(Rees)
149—50
,
265

Kachru, Shamir
225

Kallosh, Renata
225

Kaluza—Klein (KK) particles
203—4
,
208
,
261

Kaluza—Klein theory
184
,
192

Kaluza, Theodor
183
,
184
,
192
,
193

Kane, Gordon
164—5
,
176

kaons
64
,
65
,
77

Kelvin, Lord
298

Kent, Adrian
219

Kepler, Johannes
13—15
,
13
n,
97—8

Khoury, Justin
227

Kibble, Tom
69
,
70
,
71

Klein, Oskar
184
,
185

Kragh, Helge
198
,
272
,
273
,
279—80

Kuhn, Thomas
180

Landauer, Rolf
245

lasers
33
,
34
,
47
,
48
,
163
,
298

Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory, California
126

Le Verrier, Urbain
19

Lederman, Leon
73
,
75
,
136—7

Leggett, Anthony
46
,
50
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
129
,
135
,
210
,
235
,
298

Leggett's inequality
51
,
52
,
53
,
129
,
135
,
210
,
235

Lehners, Jean-Luc
228

Lemaître, Georges
108
,
110

Lense-Thirring effect
100

Lense, Josef
100

leptons
65
,
77
n,
78
,
136
n,
137
,
138
,
160
,
161
,
167
,
170
,
177
,
234
,
235
,
238
n

Leutwyler, Heinrich
76

Level IV multiverse
238

Lewis, Gilbert
30

Liebniz, Gottfried
83

light:

and matter, strange theory of
61—4

collapse of the wavefunction and
35—8

photon spin and polarization
32—5

quantum hypothesis,

Einstein's
28—30

speed of
28
,
32
,
34
,
42
,
48
,
59
,
59
n,
69
,
84—7
,
88
,
90
,
91
,
92—3
,
94
,
117
,
125
,
134
,
135
,
136

travels in straight lines
96

uncertainty principle and
38—40

wave particle duality and the

Copenhagen interpretation
30—1

see also
photons
and
wave

behaviour

Linde, Andrei
222
,
225

logical positivism
285
,
286

Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction

Lorentz, Hendrik
90

Los Alamos
113

Lowell Observatory, Arizona
108

LSP (Lightest Superpartner)
172
,
174—5
,
178
,
203

M-theory
196—8
,
199
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
207
,
208
,
209
,
226
,
227
,
230
,
231
,
261
,
266
,
269
,
282
,
288
,
291
,
297
,
300

Macbeth
243—4

Mach, Ernst
85

magnetic monopole
119

Maldacena, Juan
254—5
,
256

many worlds
216—21
,
223—4
,
227
,
229
,
231
,
261
,
286

Martin, Stephen
163
,
165

Martinec, Emil
192

mass:

asymptotic freedom and
76

‘bare'
63
,
139

calculating a priori
136—8

colour force and
76—7

construction of
54—80
,
77—80

electro-weak force and
67—8

energy and E = mc
²
59

forces of nature and
55—8

Higgs boson/field and origin of
55
,
68—73
,
78
,
80
,
235

inertia and
55

left hand of the electron
65—8

‘missing'
123

parity of wave function
65—6

particle zoo and
64—5

quantum field and second

quantization
60—1

quarks and
73—5
see also
quarks

relativistic
92
,
93

self-energy of electron and
62—3

spinning electrons and

antimatter
58—60

strange theory of light and

matter
61—4

wave interference and
54—5

what is?
55

Massive Astrophysical Compact

Halo Objects (MACHOs)
124
,
124
n

Mathematical Foundations of

Quantum Mechanics
(von

Neuman)
209—10

Mathematical Universe

Hypothesis (MUH)
236—8
,
241

matrix mechanics
58

Matrix, The
(film)
2—3

matter particles
65
,
75
,
77
,
78
,
138
,
164
,
167
,
172
,
173
,
175
,
188
,
189
,
194

Maxwell, James Clerk
28
,
29
,
61
,
63
,
85
,
146
,
183
,
192

Mercury
17
,
19
,
98
,
106

mesons
65
,
74
,
75
,
77
,
130
,
161
,
180
,
185
,
185
n,
186
,
195

metaphysics
2
,
7
,
8
,
17
,
20
,
21
,
24
,
58
,
85
,
202
,
205
,
208
,
209
,
215
,
218
,
219
,
233
,
236
,
254
,
258
,
259
,
261
,
262
,
285
,
286
,
287
,
291
,
292
,
294
,
295

Michelson, Albert
85
,
86
,
90

Millikan, Robert
30

Minimal Supersymmetric

Standard Model (MSSM)
165—6
,
165
n,
166
,
167
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
172
,
178
,
190

Minkowski, Hermann
93—4

MIT
236

Morley, Edward
85
,
86
,
90

Mount Wilson, California
109—10

multiverse
ix
,
x
,
218—33
,
218
n,
235
,
238
,
261
,
268—9
,
278
,
281—3
,
288
,
291
,
292
,
293
,
297
,
300

cosmic landscape
224—6
,
261
,
269
,
283

eternal inflation
221—4
,
229

Inflationary Multiverse

Assumption
223—4

influence of theory
231—3

many worlds
216—18

‘multiverse mania'
231—2

reality check
219—21
,
229—31

universe next door
226—8

muon
64
,
65
,
75
,
77
n,
89
,
137
,
138
,
166
,
175
,
203

Nambu, Yoichiro
69
,
185

NASA
122
,
128
,
143

National Accelerator Laboratory,

Chicago
187

National Institute of Nuclear

Physics, Italy
41

National Physical Laboratory,

UK
89
,
99

Nature
113

nature, forces of
55

Ne'eman, Yuval
74

nebulae
108
,
109

Neptune
19

neutralino
172

neutrino
57
,
59
n,
65
,
67
,
75
,
118
,
124
,
137
,
141
,
160
,
162
n,
172
,
178

neutron
56—7
,
74—5
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
111
,
113
,
124
,
161
,
180
,
263—4
,
266

neutron stars
124

Neveu, André
187
,
188
,
190

New Scientist
231—2

Newton, Isaac
xi
,
14
,
15
,
17
,
18—19
,
28
,
32
,
35—6
,
38
,
60—1
,
81
,
82—5
,
93
,
94—7
,
98
,
99—101
,
106
,
123
,
131
,
146—7
,
201
,
206

Niels Bohr Institute,

Copenhagen
185
,
215

Nielsen, Holger
185

Nirenberg, Louis
194

‘no hair' theorem
257

Noether, Emmy
155
,
156
,
157
,
164

non-baryonic matter
124

objectification, problem of
213

observer self-selection
267

OPERA experiment
59
n

Ostriker, Jeremiah
124

Ovrut, Burt
227

Padua, University of:

Department of Physics
41

Page, Don
251—2
,
256

Particle Data Group
32
,
79
,
137

particle zoo and
64—5

Pauli exclusion principle
34
,
65

Pauli, Wolfgang
34
,
57
,
62
,
182

Peccei, Roberto
141

Peebles, Jim
114
,
115
,
116
,
123—4

Pennsylvania, University of
227

Penrose, Roger
247

Penzias, Arno
115

Perlmutter, Saul
126

phase
27
,
32
,
33
,
103
,
118
,
119
,
126
,
132
,
158
,
212
,
222
,
228

philosophers
295—6

phlogiston
21
,
22

phoenix universe
228

photons
3
,
8
,
10
,
27—53
,
54
,
58
,
61
,
62
,
65
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
92
,
96
,
99
,
109
,
113
,
118
,
134
,
136
,
142
,
158
,
159
,
161
,
166
,
172
,
175
,
191
,
212
,
239
,
258
,
286
,
295

as ‘carrier' of electromagnetic

force
62

Bell's inequality and
28
,
31
,
35—6
,
37
,
37
,
38
,
54
,
55

bounced off electrons
30

collapse of the wavefunction
35—8
,
42
,
50
,
132
,
133
,
134
,
209—10