Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 48.
“CERN’s new Large Hadron Collider . . .” Economist, “Cause for ConCERN,” October 28, 2000, p. 75.
“dotted along the circumference . . .” Letter from Jeff Guinn.
“A proposed neutrino observatory at the old Homestake Mine . . .” Science, “U.S. Researchers Go for Scientific Gold Mine,” June 15, 2001, p. 1979.
“A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois . . .” Science, February 8, 2002, p. 942.
“Today the particle count is well over 150 . . .” Guth, p. 120, and Feynman, p. 39.
“Some people think there are particles called tachyons . . .” Nature, September 27, 2001, p. 354.
“which are themselves universes at the next level . . .” Sagan, p. 221.
“The charged pion and antipion decay . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 165.
“to restore some economy to the multitude of hadrons . . .” Weinberg, The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, p. 167.
“wanted to call these new basic particles partons . . .” Von Baeyer, p. 17.
“the Standard Model . . .” Economist, “New Realities?” October 7, 2000, p. 95; and Nature, “The Mass Question,” February 28, 2002, pp. 969-70.
“Bosons . . . are particles that produce and carry forces . . .” Scientific American, “Uncovering Supersymmetry,” July 2002, p. 74.
“It has too many arbitrary parameters . . .” Quoted on the PBS video Creation of the Universe, 1985. Also quoted, with slightly different numbers, in Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, pp. 298-99.
“the notional Higgs boson . . .” CERN website document “The Mass Mystery,” undated.
“So we are stuck with a theory . . .” Feynman, p. 39.
“all those little things like quarks . . .” Science News, September 22, 2001, p. 185.
“tiny enough to pass for point particles . . .” Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, p. 214.
“The heterotic string consists of a closed string . . .” Kaku, Hyperspace, p. 158.
“String theory has further spawned . . .” Scientific American, “The Universe’s Unseen Dimensions,” August 2000, pp. 62-69; and Science News, “When Branes Collide,” September 22, 2001, pp. 184-85.
“The ekpyrotic process begins far in the indefinite past . . .” New York Times, “Before the Big Bang, There Was . . . What?” May 22, 2001, p. F1.
“to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot.” Nature, September 27, 2001, p. 354.
“The question came interestingly to a head . . .” New York Times website, “Are They a) Geniuses or b) Jokers?: French Physicists’ Cosmic Theory Creates a Big Bang of Its Own,” November 9, 2002; and Economist, “Publish and Perish,” November 16, 2002, p. 75.
“Karl Popper . . . once suggested . . .” Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, p. 230.
“we do not seem to be coming to the end . . .” Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, p. 234.
“Hubble calculated that the universe was about . . .” U.S. News and World Report, “How Old Is the Universe?” August 25, 1997, p. 34.
“a new age for the universe . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 91.
“there erupted a long-running dispute . . .” Overbye, p. 268.
“a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence.” Economist, “Queerer Than We Can Suppose,” January 5, 2002, p. 58.
“may reflect the paucity of the data . . .” National Geographic, “Unveiling the Universe,” October 1999, p. 25.
“what they really mean . . .” Goldsmith, The Astronomers, p. 82.
“the best bets these days for the age of the universe . . .” U.S. News and World Report, “How Old Is the Universe?” August 25, 1997, p. 34.
