Farewell to Reality (54 page)

strong nuclear force

SUSY and
168
,
169
,
170
171
,
172
,
173

theory of
28

unifying weak nuclear force

and
67—8
,
139

electrons:

abstract nature of
16

Big Bang and
103
,
109
,
111
,
113

bounced off each other
61—2

collapse of wavefunction and
54—5

exchange of photon between

as experience of force
62

field
61

g-factor
63—4

left hand of the
65—6

light ‘bounced' off
30

matrix mechanics and
58

scalar electron
166

‘self-energy' of
62—3

spinning
58—60

two-slit interference patterns
54

volt
10
,
10
n,
118
,
137
139
,
142
,
169

elements, formation of
263—5

Ellis, George
274
,
275

End of Science, The
(Horgan)
297—8
,
299

Englert, François
69
,
70

ensemble of universes
268

‘equivalence principle'
96

eternal inflation
221—4
,
225
,
227
,
229

Euclid
96—7
,
116
,
183
,
255
n

Euler, Leonhard
185

Everett III, Hugh
215
,
216
,
221

External Reality Hypothesis (ERH)
236

Fabric of the Cosmos, The
(Greene)
94
,
206

Fact Principle
12
,
130
Facts and Mysteries in Elementary

Particle Physics
(Veltman)
202

fairy-tale physics
ix—xi
,
xii—xiii
,
1
,
2
,
24
,
131
,
135
,
180
,
181
,
259

end of physics and
297—9

harm of
291—4

it isn't science, what is it?
284—7

philosophy and
295—7

what do you want me to do

about it?
299—300

falsifiability
xii
,
18—20
,
21
,
293—4

Fermi Gamma-ray Space

Telescope
143
,
257

Fermi, Enrico
33
,
62
,
64
,
143
,
257

Fermilab
x
,
117

Tevatron
176
,
177

fermions
33
,
34
,
65
,
163—5
,
166
,
167
,
169
,
173
,
187
,
188
,
194
,
195
,
229
,
282

Ferrara, Sergio
173

Feynman, Richard
63
,
64
,
205
,
293
,
294

‘Feynman diagrams'
63

fine-tuning problem
139
,
140
148—50
,
163
,
222
,
262
,
266
,
268
,
278
,
281
,
283

FitzGerald, George
90

flatness and horizon problems
115—17

force carriers
67
,
68
,
72
,
77
,
78
,
118
,
146
,
158—9
,
170
,
173

force particles
65
,
77
,
78
,
80
,
136
n,
158
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
167
,
188
,
234

Ford, Kent
123

frame-dragging
100
,
101

Frank, Adam
237

Freedman, Daniel
173

Friedman, Alexander
107
,
108

Frigg, Roman
296—7

Fritzsch, Harald
76

Galileo
55
,
217
,
237

Galle, Johann
19

Gamow, George
106
,
111
,
112—13
,
114

Gaussian copula function
289—90

Gell-Mann, Murray
74
,
76
, 777

general theory of relativity
17—18
,
30
,
43
,
55
,
81
,
95—101
,
104—6
,
107
,
145—8
,
182
,
193
,
235
,
247
,
258

Geneva, University of
49

geodetic drift
101

Georgi, Howard
118
,
119
,
121
,
159
,
160—1
,
162
,
165
,
170

Glashow, Sheldon
67
,
68
,
69
,
119
,
121
,
159
,
160—1
,
162
,
202

Global Positioning System (GPS)
89

gluinos
166
,
167
,
177
,
178

gluons
77
,
79
,
136
n,
159
,
166
,
177
,
254
,
255

God particle
see
Higgs boson

Gold, Thomas
111—12

Goldilocks enigma
265—7
,
275

Goldilocks Enigma, The
(Davies)
275

Graham, Neill
216

Grand Delusion
289—90

grand unification epoch
118
,
120
,
121
,
139

grand unified theory (GUT)
119
,
119
n,
120
,
121
,
159—64
,
175

gravitons
73
,
146
,
173
,
189
,
200

gravity
15
,
55—6
,
57
,
123
,
125
,
127
,
128
,
136

Big Bang and
102
,
103
,
105
,
106
,
107
,
112
,
119
n,
123
,
125
,
127
,
128

black holes and
246

curvature of spacetime and
94—7

Goldilocks enigma and
265—6

Gravity Probe B
100—1

quantum
145—7
,
182—207
,
216
,
222
,
227
,
246
,
248
,
258

relativity and
94—101

search for way to unify

electromagnetism and
182—207

supergravity
172—4
,
190
,
197
,
206

Green, Michael
190
,
192

Greene, Brian
94
,
206
,
207
,
221
,
224
,
225—6
,
229
,
231
,
232—3
,
268—9

Gross, David
190
,
192
,
231

ground state
68
,
69

Grover, Leo
240

Guralink, Gerald
69
,
70

Guth, Alan
116—17
,
119
,
120
,
224
,
225

hadrons
65
,
74
,
77

Hagen, Carl
69
,
70

Harvard University
67
,
76
,
99

Harvey, Jeffrey
192

Hawking, Stephen
xiii
,
142

black hole war and
256

fairy-tale physics and
xiii
,
206

radiation
142
,
143
,
247—50
,
251
,
252
,
257
,
258

The Grand Design
206

Heisenberg, Werner
7
,
31
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
58
,
62
,
79
,
130
,
143
,
182
,
248

Herman, Robert
113
,
114
,
114
n,
115

Herschel, William
19

Heuer, Rolf
72

Hidden Reality, The
(Greene)
221
,
224
,
229
,
232—3
,
257—8
,
268—9
,
291—4

hidden variables, non-local
46—51
,
210
,
21
4

‘crypto' non-local hidden

variable theories
50—1
,
210

hierarchy problem
138—40
,
163
,
168—9
,
173
,
174
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
180
,
200
,
208
,
261

Higgs boson
10
,
11
,
11
n,
12
,
22
,
32
n,
71—3
,
77
,
77
n,
130
,
131
,
136
n,
139
,
140
159
,
166
,
167
,
169
,
178
,
204
,
288
,
298
,
300

Higgs doublet
175—6

Higgs field
55
,
70
,
78
,
80
,
118
,
120
,
121
,
137
,
155

Higgs mass
163
,
165
,
168
,
169
,
177

Higgs mechanism
69—70
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
77
,
117
,
130
,
188
,
235
,
288

Higgs triplet
176

Higgs, Peter
69
,
288

Higgsino
166
,
167
,
172

High-z Supernova Search Team
126

Higher-z Supernova Search

Team
127

holographic principle
ix
,
x
,
252—6
,
259
,
260

and superstring theory
254—6

Hooft, Gerard't
71
,
188
,
250
,
252
,
253

Ho
ř
ava, Petr
199
,
201
,
226

Horizon:
‘What is Reality?'
x
,
214—15

Horowitz, Gary
194

Hoyle, Fred
111—12
,
113
n,
114
,
263
,
264
,
278
,
279

Hubble Space Telescope
126

Advanced Camera for Surveys

(ACS)
127

Hubble, Edwin
108
,
109—10
,
111

Hubble's Law
108—10
,
115

Humason, Milton
108
,
109—10
,
111

Hume, David
287

Imperial College, London
69
,
71

inertia
14
,
33
,
55
,
70
,
91
,
92
,
96
,
217

inflation
103
,
117—20
,
122
,
124
,
126
,
150
,
221—4
,
225—9
,
266

information, universe as
ix
,
x

entropy and
241—6

quantum
238—41

Institute for Quantum Optics

and Quantum Information
51

Institute for Theoretical Physics,

University of California,

Santa Barbara
250
,
252

interference
28
,
35
,
36

two-slit
28
,
31
,
35—6
,
37
,
37
,
38
,
54
,
55

wave
28
,
31
,
35—6
,
37
,
37
,
38
,
54
,
55

integral of the first kind
185

intelligent design
270—3

International Astronomical

Union
276

symposium, Cracow,
10—12

September 1973
267

intuition, importance of
1
,
15—16
,
17
,
130
,
164

invariant, laws of physics as
93
,
94

Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate,