superstring theory, 225
“super-symmetry theory,” 227
superweak force, 214
Susuki, Mahiko, 225
syllogistic logic, 22
symmetry
and spin, 210
supersymmetry, 215, 227
symmetry breaking, 213
Tabula Rudophinæ[Rudolphine Tables] (Kepler), 41
telescope, 36
Catholic Church opinions on, 47
Galileo’s development of, 44–46, 64
Newton’s improvements on, 72
Thales, 19
Theodosius the Great, 33
Theophilus of Antioch, 33
thermodynamical law of Wien, 162
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 21
Thomson, J. J., 152, 153–54, 156, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179
Thomson, Thomas, 95
Thomson, William. See Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson)
thymine (T), 243
tides, 57–58, 68
Timaeus (Plato), 190
time, 198
amd inclined plane experiment, 12, 44, 61, 64
length of a solar year, 20
periodic times, 40, 68
reversing time, 227
space-time, 207
absolute space and time cosmological theory of, 13, 63, 76, 77, 140, 164–65, 166, 198
Einstein on, 140, 141, 145, 167, 168, 188, 203
space-time interval, 168
and speed of light, 75
time for revolutions of planets, 54
“twins paradox,” 169–70
and uncertainty principle, 200
Ting, Samuel, 211, 213
tissue engineering, 244
Tomonaga, Sinitiro, 208
Traité de Chimie [Treatise on Chemistry] (Lavoisier), 121
Traité de la lumière où sont expliquées les causes de ce qui arrive dans la réflexion et dans la réfraction. Et particulièrement dans l’étrange réfraction du cristal d’Islande [Treatise on light explaining the cause of reflection and refraction. And particularly in the strange refraction of Island crystal] (Huygens), 142
transformation
Lorentz and Einstein transformation equations, 168
transmutation of radioactive substance, 157
Trowbridge, John, 215
Tsarnaev, Tamerlan, and Dzhokhar, 254
Turner, Michael S., 221–22
20/20 Brain Power, 240
“twins paradox,” 169–70
two-fluids system, 104–105
Uhlenbeck, George E., 205
“ultraviolet catastrophe,” 160, 161
uncertainty principle, 14, 140, 197, 198, 199–200, 202–203, 207, 210
understanding, Bohr on meaning of, 189–90, 204
unified theory, 15
Grand Unified Theory (GUT), 171, 214
likelihood of finding, 228, 229
of Newton, 144–45
of Pauli and Heisenberg, 227
unified field theory of Einstein, 15, 171, 225
uniformity of nature, principle of, 52, 187
“Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces” (Glashow and Georgi), 214
universal law of gravitation, 13, 40, 65, 105, 107
universe, age of, 217
uranium, 150–51, 156, 158, 176, 217, 223
Urban VIII (pope), 12, 47, 56, 57, 58
V-A, 211
valences, 136, 182
Van der Meer, Simon, 213
Veneziano, Gabriele, 225
Venus, 11, 20, 37, 45, 56
Vesalius, Andreas, 30, 65
Villard, Paul, 157
Vincent, Nathaniel, 74
Vinta, Belisario, 52
violence, 250–54
“virtual particles,” 207, 212
Volta, Alessandro, 131
vortices, theory of, 67, 68
voyage au boulet [twins paradox], 169–70
W+ particles, 212, 214
Wallis, John, 88
Warrington Academy, 93
Washington Post (newspaper), 221, 224, 255
Watson, James, 242–43
“wave mechanics,” 186, 194–98
wave-particle duality, 140, 198
of light, 141, 184–86
of subatomic particles, 210
wave theory
of electromagnetism, 70, 113, 114, 147, 159, 165, 185, 194
of light, 13, 70, 84, 109, 111–13, 140–41, 143–44, 165
weak force, 170, 212, 214
“electroweak theory,” 213
superweak force, 214
“weakly interacting massive particles” (WIMPs), 224–25, 228
Wedgwood, Josiah, 93
Weinberg, Steven, 211, 213, 214, 215, 222
Westfall, Richard S., 68–69, 70, 72–74, 76–77, 86, 88, 89
Whewell, William, 95
Whitehead, Alfred North, 155
Whitrow, G. J., 168
Whittaker, Edmund, 113–14
Wiechert, Emil, 152, 154, 155
Wien’s thermodynamical law, 162
Wigner, Eugene, 211
Wilkins, Maurice, 242–43
Wilkinson, John, 93
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, 217
William of Orange (king), 82
Wilson, C. T. R., 154
WIMPs, 224–25, 228
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 155
Wollaston, William, 148
World Harmony [Harmonice Mundi] (Kepler), 40
W particles, 213
W- and W+, 212, 214
Wycliffe, John, 10
X-rays, 150, 156, 157, 163–64, 174, 175, 182, 185, 242, 243
Yang-Mills gauge theory, 213
Young, Thomas, 109–111, 142–43
Yukawa, Hideki, 211
Zeitschrift für Physik [Writing on Physics] (journal), 190, 192, 193, 197, 200
Z particles, 213, 214
Z0 particle, 212, 214
Zweig, George, 212
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