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by Leon Lederman

]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and alpha (1/137), [>]

  and atom, [>], [>]

  and black body radiation, [>]–[>]

  and chemistry, [>]

  and classical physics, [>]

  and conservation, [>]

  contributors to, [>]

  Bohr, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Born, [>]–[>]

  de Broglie, [>]–[>]

  Einstein, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Heisenberg, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Planck, [>]–[>], [>]

  Schrödinger, [>]–[>]

  Sommerfeld, [>]

  and cosmology, [>]

  as counterintuitive, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and Democritus, [>]–[>]

  and determinism, [>], [>]

  and double-slit experiment, [>]–[>]

  and electromagnetism, [>]–[>]

  and electron, [>], [>], [>]

  evolution of, [>]

  fruitfulness of, [>], [>]–[>]

  and gravity, [>], [>]

  on mass and range of force, [>]

  and materials science, [>]–[>]

  and Maxwell, [>]

  and measurement, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and mystical popularizations, [>], [>]–[>]

  and nuclear collisions, [>]

  "old," [>]

  and photoelectric effect, [>]–[>]

  and Planck law of radiation, [>]

  and probability, [>]–[>]

  problems of, [>]–[>]

  and relativity, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and resistance of solids, [>]

  and Rutherford model of atom, [>]–[>], [>]

  as scientific revolution, [>], [>]–[>]

  and temporary particles, [>]

  and unification, [>]

  and virtual particle, [>]

  of weak force, [>]

  Quark-antiquark pair, [>]

  Quarks, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and accelerator, [>]

  acceptance of, [>]

  asymptotic freedom of, [>]

  color of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  confinement of, [>], [>]

  in decay of particles, [>], [>]–[>]

  as dimensionless, [>]

  energy needed to crack, [>]

  evidence for, [>], [>]

  experiments on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  exploring combinations of, [>]–[>]

  flavors of, [>]–[>]

  in futurist dream, [>]

  and Galileo, [>]

  and mass, [>]

  and pointlike concentrations, [>]

  and protons, [>], [>]

  and standard model, [>], [>]

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

  types of, [>]

  bottom/beauty (b), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  charm (c), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  down (d), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  strange (s), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  top/truth (t), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  up (u), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  undiscovered, [>]

  and wave function, [>]

  Quinn, Helen, [>]

  Rabi, [>].1., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Radiation

  black body, [>]–[>]

  Bohr's explanation of, [>]

  Planck law of, [>]

  Radiative corrections, [>]

  Radioactivity, [>], [>]–[>]

  and classical theory, [>]

  discovery of, [>]

  and light, [>]

  Rainwater, James, [>], [>]

  Ramond, Pierre, [>]

  Ramsey, Norman, [>]

  Rayleigh, Lord, [>], [>]

  Reagan, Ronald, and SSC, [>]–[>]

  Reality, objective, [>], [>]

  Reason

  and Democritus, [>], [>], [>]

  Galileo's use of, [>], [>]

  Hawking's use of, [>]

  and Higgs particle, [>]

  Red shift, [>]–[>]

  Relativity, [>]

  and accelerators, [>]

  and alpha (1/137), [>]

  general theory of, [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  special theory of, [>], [>], [>]

  and unification, [>]

  Renormalization, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Resonant acceleration, [>]

  Richter Burton, [>], [>], [>]

  Roentgen, Wilhelm, [>], [>]

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., [>]

  Rosner; John, [>]

  Rossi, Bruno, [>]

  Rubbia, Carlo, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Russell, Bertrand, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Rutherford, Lord Ernest, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and accelerators, [>], [>], [>]

  and Bohr, [>], [>]

  and quarks, [>]–[>]

  and radioactivity, [>], [>]

  scattering experiments of, [>], [>]

  and standard model, [>]

  Rutherford Laboratory, [>]

  Sagan, Carl, [>], [>], [>]

  Salam, Abdus, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Sands, Matt, [>]

  Scattering experiments, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  neutrino-, [>]

  Rutherford's prototype of, [>]

  Schramm, David, [>]

  Schrödinger, Erwin, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Schrödinger's equation, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Schwartz, Melvin, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Schwarz, John, [>]

  Schwinger, Julian, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Science

  beginning of, [>]–[>], [>]

  and Big Science, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bronowski on, [>]–[>]

  education in, [>]

  flourishing of (1950s and 1960s), [>]

  and how vs. why, [>], [>]

  and human meaning, [>]–[>]

  iconoclasts encouraged in, [>]

  and instruments, [>]

  method of, [>]–[>]

  pyramid of, [>]–[>]

  research collaboration in, [>]

  revolutions in, [>]–[>]

  Rutherford on, [>]

  and social needs, [>]–[>]

  See also Particle physics; Physics

  Science literacy, [>]–[>]

  Scientific method

  and Galileo, [>]

  and induction, [>]

  and passion vs. self-criticism, [>]

  and theory, [>]

  See also Experiment

  Scientists, characteristics of, [>]–[>]

  Scintillation counters, [>]–[>]

  Segré, Emilio, [>]–[>]

  Selectron, [>]

  Semiconductors, [>]

  Serber, Robert, [>]–[>]

  Sharpness of mass, [>]–[>]

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [>]

  Sherk, Joel, [>]

  Shoulder, Lederman, [>], [>]

  Sigma particles, [>], [>], [>]

  baryon number of, [>]

  Sippach, William, [>]–[>], [>]

  SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Sleptons, [>]

  Smithsonian Institution, [>]

  Smoot, George, [>]

  Snyder; Hartland, [>]

  Soccer match, as particle physics metaphor, [>]–[>]

  Sommerfeld, Arnold, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Sophists, [>]

  Space, [>]–[>]. See also Void Spark chamber [>]

  SPEAR (Stanford Positron-Electron Accelerator Ring), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Spectral lines, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and Big Bang, [>]

  and classical theory, [>]

  and measurement, [>]

  and Schrödinger equation, [>]

  Speed of light, [>], [>],
[>]–[>]

  and alpha (1/137), [>]

  Fizeau's measurement of, [>]

  relativity theory on, [>]

  Spin, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  of electrons, [>], [>], [>]

  and fermions vs. bosons, [>]

  isotopic (isospin), [>]

  of muon, [>]

  and parity conservation, [>]–[>], [>], [>] (see also Parity)

  Rabi on, [>]

  Spinoza, Benedict, [>], [>]

  Squarks, [>]

  Standard cosmological model, [>]

  Standard model (particle physics), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  attempts to complete, [>]–[>]

  flaws of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  gravity lacking in, [>], [>], [>]

  and Higgs idea, [>], [>]

  at high energies, [>]

  history of, [>]

  and initial conditions of universe, [>]

  overcomplexity of, [>]–[>], [>]

  and top quark, [>], [>]–[>]

  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stanford Positron-Electron Accelerator Ring (SPEAR), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stars, elements in, [>]

  Steinberg‹; Jack, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Steinmetz, Charles, [>]

  Stevens, Wallace, [>]

  Stochastic cooling, [>]

  Stoney, George Johnstone, [>]

  Story of Relativity, The (Einstein and Infeld), [>]

  Strange quarks, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  String theory, [>]–[>]

  Strong focusing, [>]–[>]

  Strong force, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and conservation of strangeness, [>]

  in creation process, [>]

  and distance, [>], [>]

  and gluons, [>], [>]

  and hadrons, [>]–[>]

  and neutrino, [>]

  and Newton, [>]

  and quantum field theory, [>]

  and quark experiments, [>]

  in standard model, [>]

  Sullivan, Walter [>]

  Sun

  elements in, [>]

  late-1890s puzzle over [>]

  Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  cascade acceleration in, [>]

  and Congress, [>], [>]

  energy of, [>]

  in futurist dream, [>], [>]

  and Higgs particle, [>]

  Reagan educated on, [>]–[>]

  search for site of, [>]–[>]

  and superconductivity, [>]–[>]

  Superconductivity, [>]–[>], [>]

  and accelerators, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Supernova explosion, [>], [>]

  Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), [>]

  Superstrings, [>], [>]–[>]

  Supersymmetry (Susy), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Symmetry, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  C (charge), [>]

  chiral, [>], [>]

  and conservation, [>]

  CP, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  of electricity and magnetism, [>]

  gauge, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and God Particle, [>], [>]

  in gravitational attraction, [>]

  and Greeks, [>]

  and Higgs phenomena, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and laws of conservation, [>]

  Maxwell's concern with, [>]

  P (parity) or mirror, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>] (see also Parity)

  and quark pairs, [>]

  slight departures from, [>]

  theorists' belief in, [>]

  and Twiloan example, [>]

  Synchrocyclotron, [>]–[>]

  Synchrotron, [>]–[>], [>]

  and strong focusing, [>]–[>]

  Szilard, Leo, [>]

  Tao of Physics, The (Capra), [>], [>], [>]

  TASSO (Two-Armed Solenoidal Spectrometer), [>]

  Taubes, Gary, [>], [>]

  Tau lepton, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Tau neutrino, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Taylor, Richard, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Telescope, of Galileo, [>], [>]

  Teller Edward, [>]

  Tevatron (Fermilab accelerator), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  amount of information from, [>]

  antiprotons in, [>]–[>]

  and birth of universe, [>]

  cascade acceleration in, [>]

  number of collisions in, [>]

  and standard model, [>]

  and top quark, [>]

  and Wilson, [>]

  See also Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

  Thales, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Theorists, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bohr as, [>]

  on future of physics, [>]–[>]

  and mathematical symmetry, [>]

  Rabi's definition of, [>]

  and reality, [>]

  Ting on, [>]

  Theory, [>]

  as description of experience, [>]

  and experiment, [>]

  in seventeenth century, [>]

  Theory of Everything (TOE), [>]–[>], [>]

  Thomson, George P., [>], [>]–[>]

  Thomson, Joseph John, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Bohr, [>]

  and Cavendish Laboratory, [>], [>]

  and discharge tubes, [>]

  't Hooft, Gerard, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Three-neutrino experiment, [>]

  Time, meaning of, [>]–[>]

  Ting, Samuel C. C., [>], [>], [>]

  Tinlot, John, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Tollestrup, Alvin, [>]

  Tomonaga, Sinitiro, [>], [>], [>]

  Top (truth) quark, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Torricelli, Evangelista, [>]–[>]

  Tortella, Gabriel, [>]

  Townes, Charles, [>], [>]

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

  Translation, of space and time, [>]

  "Triggers," in Collider Detector Facility, [>]

  T-shirt, ultimate, [>]–[>]

  Tunneling, [>]–[>]

  Turner Frederick, [>]

  Turner, Mike, [>]

  Tuve, Merle, [>]

  Two-neutrino experiment, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Uhlenbeck, George, [>]

  "Ultraviolet catastrophe," [>]

  Uncertainty principle. See Heisenberg uncertainty principle or relations

  Unification, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and asymptotic freedom of quarks, [>]

  and grand unification theories, [>], [>]–[>]

  and hypothetical particles, [>]

  quest for [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Unitarity crisis, [>], [>]–[>]

  and Higgs particle, [>], [>]

  Universe(s)

  birth of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and accelerators, [>]–[>], [>]

  The First Three Minutes on, [>]–[>]

  bubble, [>], [>]

  closed vs. open, [>]–[>]

  composition of, [>]–[>]

  contraction/expansion of, [>]–[>]

  earliest stages of, [>], [>]

  expansion of, [>]–[>]

  inflationary, [>]

  lumpiness of, [>]–[>]

  observable radius of, [>]

  reality of, [>]

  temperature of, [>], [>]

  unlimited number of, [>]

  Up quark, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Upsilon particle, [>], [>]–[>]

  Vacuum. See Void

  Van de Graaff, Robert, [>]

  Van de Graaff generator, [>]

  Van der Meer, Simon, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Veblen, Thorstein, takeoff on, [>]

  Vectors, [>]

  Veksler V. I., [>]

&nb
sp; Velikovsky, Immanuel, [>]

  Velocity of light. See Speed of light

  Veltman, Martinus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Veneziano, Gabrielle, [>]

  Virtual particles, [>]–[>]

  Void (empty space, vacuum), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  aether as, [>], [>], [>]

  and apeiron, [>]

  Democritus on, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Higgs idea, [>]

  temporary particles in, [>]

  and Torricelli, [>]–[>]

  and virtual particles, [>]

  Volta, Alessandro, [>]–[>]

  Walter, Ernest, [>]–[>]

  Watt, James, [>]

  Wattenberg, Alan, [>]

  Wave, [>]

  electromagnetic, [>], [>]

  electrons as, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  light, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  matter, [>], [>]

  probability, [>]–[>]

  Wave function, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Wave-particle conflict. See Particle-wave conflict

  Weak force, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and conservation of strangeness, [>]

  crises in understanding of, [>]–[>]

  and decay, [>]–[>]

  Fermi's discovery of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and high energy, [>], [>]

  motivation to work on, [>]

  and neutrinos, [>], [>]

  and Newton, [>]

  and parity, [>]–[>], [>]

  and quantum field theory, [>]

  and quark experiments, [>]

  and quark symmetry, [>]

  renormalizabie theory of, [>]

  in standard model, [>]

  study of, [>]–[>]

  and symmetry, [>]–[>]

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

  Weber W. E., [>]

  Weichert, Emil, [>]–[>]

  Weightlessness, [>]–[>]

  Weinberg, Steven, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Weinrich, Marcel, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Weisskopf, Victor [>], [>], [>]

  Westfall, Richard, [>]

  Wideröe, Rolf, [>], [>], [>]

  Wien, Wilhelm, [>]

  Wigner Eugene, [>]

  Wilczek, Frank, [>], [>]

  Will, George, [>]

  Wilson, C. T. R., [>]

  Wilson, Robert R., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  on accelerator and cathedral, [>]

  congressional testimony of, [>], [>]

  and discovery of upsilon, [>]

  and superconductivity, [>]–[>]

  Witten, Edward, [>], [>]

  World War II

  and Big Science, [>]–[>], [>]

  radar technology developed in, [>]

  W particles, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  discovery of, [>]

  mass of, [>], [>]

  search for [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  as short-lived, [>]

  and unitarity crisis, [>]–[>]

  W+, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  W− [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Wu, Chen Shiung, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Wu, Sau Lan, [>]

  X bosons, [>]

  Xi particles, [>]

  X-rays, [>], [>]

  Yan, Tung Mo, [>

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