I highly recommend this book as well as watching her lectures online. 'It took me a while to read this volume because as I was trying to get from the tenth dimension to the eleventh, there were particles floating around in my Brane and, as I tried to string them together to make sense out of them, I hit Dark Matter and fell into a Black Hole. Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of today's particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. . In some ways the book is a victim of timing. It's capable of making predictions that turn out to be incredibly accurate, down to many decimal places. Very, very often the same information is repeated several times, seemingly building to some greater point, only for the chapter to end with a bullet point summary of those same, repeated points. Half the book deals with theories that have not yet been proved -- fascinating ideas that might turn out to reflect the "real world" but that regardless of that have a puzzle and artistic appeal.I really had my hopes up for Warped Passages after reading Brian Greene’s Hidden Reality. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. There were several points during the book that I found myself wondering if I was reading an explanation, a joke, or a pop culture reference. Not because I enjoyed that book so much, but because it so thoroughly confused and frustrated me that I just assumed another book would do a better job of explaining the wonderful world of hidden dimensions.Through the early pages of the book, Dr. Randall's writing style drove me nearly crazy, but as I continued to read, either she started to get her bearings or else I got more used to it. I can well understand that Randall might have much to say about being female and a physicist, but there is a kind of thinly-hidden effort to impress us as a kind of uber-babe, a rock climbing, equation slinging woman who has her fair share of beauxs.I know I won't be able to truly understand quantum mechanics and particle physics until I sit down and learn the math somehow...but I thought Lisa Randall did an amazing job trying. . A solution to the hierarchy problem in physicsIs gravity weaker than other three forces? Click here for a list of interest-specific sites grouped by category. Some of the analogies miss the mark and the attempted conference-style humor throughout, including the little fictional narrative sections at the start of each chapter, is a little awkward, but overall I came away having learned something about string theory, extra dimensions, the hierarchy problem and the ambiguous nature of dimensions themselves.I thought this book, particularly when compared to, say, Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe, continually fell short of its ambitions. It definitely peaked by curiosity and I am intrigued to learn more, but this is no "particle physics for dummies". Some of the analogies miss the mark and the attempted conference-style humor throughout, including the little fictional narrative sections at the start of each chapter, is a little awkward, but overall I came away having learned something about string theory, extra dimensions,It can be difficult to try and explain abstract theoretical physics concepts with just analogies and no equations, but Randall does a reasonably good job of describing the main points of interest and research in her field. In the book she discussed the possibility of there being extra… Warped Passages. If you are located outside the U.S., the best way to order online is to choose from the following bookstores listed by region and country.

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