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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

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by Leon Lederman

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  Isospin, [>]

  Isotropy crisis, [>]

  Jets, of hadrons, [>]

  Johnson, Lyndon, [>]

  Johnston, Bennett, [>]–[>]

  Joule, James, [>]

  Joyce, James, and "quark," [>]

  J/psi, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Kaons, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  negative (K−), [>], [>], [>]

  neutral (K0), [>], [>]

  positive (K+), [>], [>], [>]

  Kaufmann, Walter, [>]–[>], [>]

  Kelvin, Lord, [>], [>]

  Kendall, Henry, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Kepler, Johannes, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Klein, Martin, [>]

  Kolb, Rocky, [>]

  Kosmos, [>]

  Kusch, Polykarp, [>], [>]

  Lagrange, Joseph Louis, [>]

  Lamb, Willis, [>], [>], [>]

  Lambda particle, [>], [>], [>]

  Lasers, [>]

  Lattes, Cesare, [>], [>]

  Lauritsen, Charles, [>]

  Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent, [>], [>]–[>]

  Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Leaning Tower of Pisa, [>], [>], [>]

  Lederman, Leon

  Anderson as inspiration to, [>]

  and cloud chamber, [>], [>]–[>]

  as Colombia professo‹; [>]

  and construction of particle counter; [>]

  and Desertron (SSC), [>]–[>]

  on Donahue show, [>]

  in dream dialogue with Democritus, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  early years of, [>]

  as Fermilab director, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and J/psi discovery, [>]–[>]

  and "Lee-on," [>]

  and Nevis cyclotron, [>], [>]

  Nobel and other prizes of, [>]–[>]

  and parity experiment, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and problem of mass, [>]

  professional recognition of, [>]–[>]

  and standard model, [>]

  and theorists, [>]–[>]

  and two-neutrino experiment, [>]–[>], [>]

  "Unauthorized Autobiography" of, [>]

  upsilon discovery by, [>]–[>]

  Lederman Shoulder, [>], [>]

  Lee, Ben, [>]

  Lee, Tsung Dao, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and hypothetical particles, [>]

  and "Lee-on," [>]

  and parity experiment, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  as inspiration to Schwartz, [>]

  as theorist, [>], [>]

  at unification seminar; [>]

  and weak-force theory, [>]

  Leibniz, Gottfried, [>], [>]

  Leno, Jay, quoted, [>], [>]

  Leptons, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and accelerator, [>]

  baryon number of, [>]

  electrons as, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  in futurist dream, [>]

  and Galileo, [>]

  and Higgs phenomena, [>]

  and standard model, [>], [>]

  tau, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  third generation of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Leucippus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Library, as metaphor for matter [>]–[>]

  Light

  absorption and emission of, [>]

  and Big Bang theory, [>]

  and black body radiation, [>]–[>]

  Galileo on, [>]–[>], [>]

  Newton on, [>], [>]

  and photoelectric effect, [>]–[>]

  and radioactivity, [>]

  spectral composition of, [>]–[>]

  speed of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  in unified theory, [>]

  as wave phenomenon, [>]

  and atomic structure, [>]

  and double-slit experiment, [>]

  and wave-corpuscle dilemma, [>]

  Linde, André, [>]

  Linear accelerator (linac), [>], [>], [>]

  Livingston, Stanley, [>], [>]

  Luck, and scientific success, [>]

  Lucretius, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  McMillan, Edwin, [>]

  Magnetism, [>]

  and electricity, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  of electron, [>]–[>], [>]

  and symmetry, [>]

  See also Electromagnetism

  Mann, Alfred, [>]

  Marconi, Guglielmo, [>], [>], [>]

  Marsden, Ernest, [>], [>]

  Marshak, Robert, [>]

  Masers, [>]

  Mass, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  conversion of to energy, [>]

  as directionless, [>]

  of electron, [>], [>], [>]

  gravitational vs. inertial, [>]–[>]

  and Higgs field, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Mendeleev on chemistry as science of, [>]

  and neutrinos, [>]

  and Newton's law, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  of pion, [>]

  and relativity theory, [>], [>]

  sharpness of, [>]–[>]

  Mathematics, [>], [>]–[>]

  and Galileo, [>]

  of infinitesimals, [>]

  and Kepler, [>]

  and Newton, [>]

  and Pythagoreans, [>]–[>]

  Matrix mechanics, [>], [>]

  Matter

  building blocks of, [>]–[>] (see also A-torn; Particles)

  and change, [>]

  dark, [>], [>]–[>]

  Democritus on, [>]

  and force, [>]

  library as metaphor of, [>]–[>]

  theories on ultimate elements of

  of Anaximander, [>]

  of Anaximenes, [>]

  of Dalton, [>]–[>]

  of Democritus, [>]–[>], [>]

  of Empedocles, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  modern, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  of Parmenides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  of Prout, [>]–[>]

  of Rutherford, [>]–[>]

  of seventeenth-century chemistry, [>]

  of Thales, [>], [>]

  See also Quantum theory or mechanics

  Matter waves, [>], [>]

  Maxwell, James Clerk, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and action-at-a-distance, [>]

  and aether [>], [>]

  on atoms, [>]–[>]

  and black body radiation, [>]

  Bronowski on, [>]

  phenomena unexplained by, [>]

  and Rutherford atom, [>]

  Measurement

  of atomic weights, [>]

  and Brahe, [>], [>]–[>]

  and Galileo, [>]–[>]

  Heisenberg on necessity for; [>]

  in Lavoisier's water experiment, [>]

  and quantum theory, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  in Thomson's experiment on electron charge, [>]

  uncertainty of, [>]

  Mediators of force, [>]

  Mendeleev, Dmitri, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Mesons, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Messenger particles, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  for electroweak force, [>]–[>]

  and Fermi on weak force, [>]

  and gluons, [>]–[>], [>]

  for weak force, [>]

  See also Bosons; Force carriers

  Messenger photon, [>], [>]

  Metric system, [>], [>], [>]

  Michelson, Albert, [>]

  Miletus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Mills, Robert, [>]

  Mirror symmetry, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Parity

  Moby Dick (Melville), [>]

  Molecules, [>], [>], [>]

  Monet, Claude, [>], [>]

  Monopoles, [>]

  Motion, [>]

  Aristotle on, [>], [>], [>]

  conversion of electricity to, [>]

  Democritus on,
[>], [>]

  Galileo's discoveries about, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Newton's laws of, [>], [>]–[>]

  Muon, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  charge of, [>]

  detection of, [>]

  in dimuon experiment, [>]–[>]

  g-value of, [>]–[>]

  lifetime of, [>]

  mass of as puzzle, [>]

  and messenger particles, [>]

  in parity experiment, [>]–[>]

  in parity illustration, [>]–[>]

  from photon, [>]

  from pion, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and protons, [>]

  as stopping particle, [>]

  unobserved decay of, [>], [>]

  and two-neutrino experiment, [>]–[>]

  Muon neutrino, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Musical scale, [>]–[>]

  Mysticism

  and Buddhism allusion, [>]

  and EPR thought experiment, [>]

  in popularizations of physics, [>], [>]

  Necessity, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Neumann, John von, [>]

  Neutral currents, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Neutrinos, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and beta decay, [>]

  and conservation, [>], [>]

  and dark matter [>]

  detecting, [>], [>]

  electron neutrino, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and experiment of two neutrinos, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  "flavor" of (electron vs. muon), [>]–[>]

  and fourth generation, [>]

  and mass, [>]

  muon neutrino, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  from outside solar system, [>]

  and pion, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and quarks, [>], [>]

  tau neutrino, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and weak force, [>], [>]

  and Z0, [>]

  Neutrons, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  baryon number of, [>]

  energy needed to crack, [>]

  half-life of, [>]

  Neveu, André, [>]

  Nevis cyclotron (Columbia), [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  cloud chamber for, [>]–[>]

  fringe field focusing with, [>]–[>]

  parity experiment with, [>]–[>]

  pions from, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Newton, Isaac, and Newtonian physics, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and aether [>], [>]

  and atoms, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and calculus, [>], [>]–[>]

  and determinism, [>], [>]

  and Einstein, [>]

  and evolution of science, [>], [>], [>]

  and falling apple, [>], [>]

  and force field, [>]

  and gravity, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and Kepler [>]

  Lavoisier compared to, [>]

  laws of motion of, [>], [>]–[>]

  on light, [>], [>]

  and magic/alchemy, [>], [>]

  phenomena unexplained by, [>] Principia of, [>]–[>]

  and relativity, [>]

  and Rutherford atom, [>]

  and Schrödinger equation, [>]–[>]

  as warden of Mint, [>]–[>]

  Niobium, [>], [>], [>]

  Nobel Prize, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Noether Emmy, [>], [>]

  "November Revolution," [>]–[>]

  Nuclear atom, [>]

  Nuclear core, energy to crack, [>]

  Nuclear explosion, and mass-energy conversion, [>], [>]

  Nucleon, [>], [>]

  Nucleus, [>], [>], [>]

  and accelerator [>]

  energy needed to crack, [>]

  and quantum theory, [>]

  radioactivity of, [>]–[>]

  and periodic table, [>]

  as research focus, [>]

  Rutherford's discovery of, [>]–[>]

  and scattering, [>]

  Numbers

  alpha (1/137), [>], [>], [>]

  determining universe, [>]

  Pythagoreans' view of, [>]

  quantum, [>]

  scientific notation for, [>]–[>]

  See also Mathematics

  Observations

  and Anaximenes, [>]

  and equations, [>]

  See also Experiment

  Occiallini, Giuseppe, [>]

  Oersted, Hans Christian, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ohm, Georg, [>]

  Omega minus particle, [>]

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, [>], [>], [>]

  Oxygen atom, [>]

  Pagels, Heinz, [>], [>], [>]

  Pais, Abraham, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Panofsky, Wolfgang, [>], [>]

  Parity

  conservation of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  "downfall" of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  violation of, [>], [>], [>]

  Parmenides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Particle accelerators. See Accelerators, particle

  Particle counter [>]

  Particle physics, [>]

  and astrophysics or cosmology, [>], [>], [>]

  as detective story, [>]–[>]

  in dialogue with Democritus, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and earlier science, [>]

  evidence in, [>]–[>]

  experimenters and theorists in, [>]–[>] (see also Experimenters; Theorists)

  and force-matter distinction, [>]

  and God Particle, [>] (see also Higgs field or particle)

  and hadron proliferation, [>]–[>]

  and history of atomism, [>] (see also A-tom)

  "seeds within seeds" in, [>]

  standard model in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Standard model)

  and Tower of Babel parable, [>]–[>]

  and ultimate particle, [>]–[>]

  See also Physics

  Particles

  and accelerators, [>], [>]–[>] (see also Accelerators, particle)

  collisions as creating, [>]

  detection of, [>]–[>]

  of electricity, [>]

  Empedocles on, [>]

  exotic, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and Galileo on light, [>]

  hypothetical, [>]–[>]

  in standard model, [>]

  temporary, [>]–[>]

  virtual, [>]–[>]

  See also Standard model; individual particles

  Particle-wave conflict

  for electrons, [>], [>]

  for light, [>]

  Pasteup Louis, [>]

  Pastore, John, [>], [>]

  Pauli, Wolfgang, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and neutrino, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and number [>], [>]

  and quantum theory, [>], [>]

  quoted (on God), [>], [>]

  unified theory of, [>]

  in War Against Infinities, [>]

  Pauli exclusion principle, [>], [>]

  P-bar See antiproton

  Peoples, John, [>], [>]

  Periodic table of elements, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Perl, Martin, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Phase stability, [>]–[>]

  Philosophers, Greek, [>]–[>], [>]. See also individual philosophers

  Phlogiston, [>]

  Photoelectric effect, [>]–[>], [>]

  Photon, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and accelerators, [>], [>]

  and Big Bang theory, [>]

  creation of, [>]

  detection of, [>]

  and electroweak force, [>]

  and Higgs phenomena, [>], [>]–[>]

  messenger, [>], [>], [>]

  and quarks, [>]

  in standard model, [>]

  tagged, [>]

  Zukav on, [>]

  Physicists, [>]

  and chemistry, [>]

  and downfall of parity, [>]–[>]

  emotions of, [>]–[>]

  Kepler
as forerunner of, [>]

  Soviet, [>]–[>]

  unification sought by, [>], [>], [>]–[>] (see also Unification)

  vs. pre-Socratics, [>]

  Physics

  and accelerators, [>] (see also Accelerators, particle)

  classical, [>], [>], [>], [>] (see also Classical physics)

  development of, [>]

  division(s) of, [>]

  end of proclaimed, [>]

  and Galileo's experiments, [>]

  of late 1890s, [>]–[>]

  and mathematics, [>], [>]

  mystical popularizations of, [>]–[>], [>]

  "November Revolution" in, [>]–[>]

  and pyramid of science, [>]

  skeptical questions on, [>]–[>]

  and The Road, [>], [>], [>]

  Totalitarian Rule of, [>], [>] See also Particle physics; Science

  Pions (pi mesons), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  charge of, [>]

  in cosmic rays, [>]

  as decay product, [>]

  and Fermilab collider [>]

  and fringe field focusing, [>]–[>]

  isospin states of, [>]

  muons generated by, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  negative, [>]

  neutral, [>]

  in neutrino experiment, [>]

  from particle Victories, [>]

  positive, [>]

  Planck, Max, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Planck domain, [>]–[>]

  Planck mass, [>]–[>], [>]

  Planck's constant, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Plato, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Poincaré, Henri, [>]

  Politzer, David, [>]

  Pontecorvo, Bruno, [>]

  Positron (positive electron), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Potential energy, [>], [>]

  Powell, C. F., [>]

  Prequarks, [>]

  Princeton University, [>] Principia (Newton), [>]–[>]

  Probability, [>]

  and quantum mechanics, [>]–[>]

  Proportional wire chamber (PWC), [>]

  Protagoras, [>]–[>]

  Proton, [>], [>], [>]

  and accelerator [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  baryon number of, [>]

  charge of, [>]

  decay of, [>]–[>]

  as decay product, [>]

  energy needed to crack, [>]

  experiments on, [>]–[>]

  in Fermilab accelerator [>], [>]

  from photon, [>]

  pictures of, [>]–[>]

  polarized, [>]

  and quarks, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  "seeing," [>]

  Prout William, [>]–[>]

  Psi, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ptolemy, [>], [>]

  Pulsars, [>]–[>]

  Pure Reason. See Reason Purpose, as cause, [>]–[>]

  Pythagoras, [>], [>], [>]

  Pythagoreans, [>], [>]–[>]

  Quantum atom, [>]

  Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Quantum electrodynamics (QED), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and gauge transformation, [>]

  and g-value of muon, [>]

  and QCD, [>]

  Quantum gravity, [>], [>]

  Quantum numbers, [>]

  Quantum theory or mechanics, [>

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