Young’s double-slit experiment with light and, 73–76, 77–78, 88
W bosons, 216–17, 250, 254, 271
weak interaction
Fermi’s theory of, 161, 162, 164
V-A theory of, 164
Weinberg’s research on, 215–18, 219, 221, 223, 225–26
Weinberg, Steven, 204, 212–18, 276, 277, 278, 296
background of, 212–13
electroweak unification model and, 222, 228
Glashow’s research and, 212–13, 218
Krauss’s education and, 213–14
quantum field theory and, 214
research approach of, 213–14
response to paper of, 219
symmetry breaking and, 214–16
weak interaction theories of, 215–18, 219, 221, 223, 225–26
Z boson discovered by, 217
Weinrich, Marcel, 160
Weisskopf, Victor, 160, 202, 269
Weyl, Hermann, 110–11
Wieman, Carl, 186
Wigner, Eugene, 158, 169
Wilczek, Frank, 36, 238–39, 240, 241, 245, 277, 293
Wilson, Robert R., 30–31, 261
Witten, Edward, 238, 283
W plus and W minus bosons, 216. See also W bosons
Wu, Chien-Shiung, 159–60, 161
Y
Yang, Chen-Ning, 152–53
background of, 152–54
parity doubling concept of, 157, 158–59, 161, 168
Lee’s collaborations with, 153–54
Mills’s collaboration with. See Yang-Mills symmetry
Yang-Mills symmetry, 218, 221
Gell-Mann’s proposal on, 193
original research on, 173–74, 175, 202
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Sakurai’s research on, 192–93
Schwinger’s research on, 175–76, 203
Young, Thomas, 73–76
background of, 73
double-slit experiment with light of, 74–76, 77, 88
wave nature of light and, 73–74
Young’s modulus, 73
Yukawa, Hideki, 141–46, 147, 148–49, 156, 162, 168, 174, 231
Z
Z boson, 217, 250, 254, 271
Zel’dovich, Yakov B., 226
Zweig, George, 193–94, 231
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Document Outline
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: Genesis Chapter 1: From the Armoire to the Cave
Chapter 2: Seeing in the Dark
Chapter 3: Through a Glass, Lightly
Chapter 4: There, and Back Again
Chapter 5: A Stitch in Time
Chapter 6: The Shadows of Reality
Chapter 7: A Universe Stranger than Fiction
Chapter 8: A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter 9: Decay and Rubble
Chapter 10: From Here to Infinity: Shedding Light on the Sun
Part Two: Exodus Chapter 11: Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
Chapter 12: March of the Titans
Chapter 13: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Symmetry Strikes Back
Chapter 14: Cold, Stark Reality: Breaking Bad or Beautiful?
Chapter 15: Living Inside a Superconductor
Chapter 16: The Bearable Heaviness of Being: Symmetry Broken, Physics Fixed
Part Three: Revelation Chapter 17: The Wrong Place at the Right Time
Chapter 18: The Fog Lifts
Chapter 19: Free at Last
Chapter 20: Spanking the Vacuum
Chapter 21: Gothic Cathedrals of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 22: More Questions than Answers
Chapter 23: From a Beer Party to the End of Time
Epilogue: Cosmic Humility
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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