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Warped Passages is a book about extra dimensions. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughtout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall gives an introduction to developments in early twentieth century physics, particle physics and string theory, including branes, and addresses current deabtes about relativity, quantum mechanics and gravity. She allows the reader to understand the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve. And the kind of speculation that is needed to even imagine them. She also illustrates the questions that are still left wide open.
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"A great read. . . . I highly recommend it." -- Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday
"Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today."--Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
"A great read. . . . I highly recommend it."--Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday
"Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology."--Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos
Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology. --Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos"
Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today. --Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"
A great read. . . . I highly recommend it. --Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday"
-Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology.---Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos
-Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today.---Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
-A great read. . . . I highly recommend it.---Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday
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"Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today."--Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
"A great read. . . . I highly recommend it."--Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday
"Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology."--Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos
Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology. --Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos"
Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today. --Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"
A great read. . . . I highly recommend it. --Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday"
-Lisa Randall, a leading theorist, has made major contributions to both particle physics and cosmology.---Brian Greene, bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabrics of the Cosmos
-Randall is one of the most influencial and exciting young theoretical Physicists working in elementary particle physics and cosmology today.---Lee Smolin, author of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
-A great read. . . . I highly recommend it.---Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio's Science Friday
Lisa Randall is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on string theory and has had chairs at MIT and Harvard. She works on one of the main two competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0713996994
- ISBN 13 9780713996999
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages499
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