Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions is the debut non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, published in , about. Warped Passages has ratings and reviews. Manuel said: If you’re into Unfortunately, Lisa Randall’s Warped Passages is no better. Just like Hidden. WARPED PASSAGES Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions. By Lisa Randall. Illustrated. pp. Ecco/ HarperCollins.
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions
Factor rated it did not like it. Imagine you have a dripping sink in your kitchen and you want to know how often it drips. The Standard Model is introduced twice. This latter class of theories suggests interesting experimental tests.
This has involved studies of strongly interacting theories, supersymmetry, and most recently, extra dimensions of space. A solution to the hierarchy problem in physics Gravity is the weakest forces of all the four forces of our universe, because, according to the author, it is concentrated in another spatial dimension of the universe, and these extra dimensions could be infinitely paswages.
This isn’t a well established result yet, though. Stick to the maths, Lisa; you’re good at maths. The world is nothing like what we perceive. Chock full of misleading analogies, painful allegories, and irrelevant material cut-and-pasted from other failed writing projects.
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Don’t be fooled by the journo’s reassuring commentary on the cover. Throughout the middle section of the book, there is a growing emphasis on the urgency of resolving the hierarchy problem, or the question ‘why is gravity so weak? Definitely helped open my eyes to some of the crazier aspects of our world. This book is an overview of modern particle physics as of and a surprisingly deep look at how the universe works at the sub-atomic level. 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 pasxages who has her fair share of beauxs.
Randall and co-researchers have produced inter “Every now and liisa a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. In higher dimensions, we’re just adding more coordinates; you might wapred be able to picture liza, but you can still reason about it. As it was published some years before the opening of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, there is a certain sense of wheel spinning as the theory waits for experimental verification.
It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize.
I could not wait for it to end. This material includes special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, and string theory. We are still long way to clearly understand the concept of space and time, but the author’s theory may be a step in the direction of advancement. One solution is to measure for a longer time period, such as seconds. There were several helpful tools though; one is a bullet list of summary points at the end of most chapters so if you wanted to skip ahead you could review the bullets and move on.
The road that science takes liisa littered with the husks of thousands of dead theories–once-promising ideas that had to be cast aside for better alternatives. It’s prose is only adequate and often misestimates the lixa reader’s level of understanding. Not because I enjoyed that book so much, but because radall 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.
I’m so fucking sick of the rock star physicist image; that is condescending in passagea undesirable way. No journalist wants to admit that they can’t make head nor tail of a ‘pop’ science book. I hope I live long enough to see the how the work of Randall and others waeped our understanding or branes and the forces attached to them.
There is a lot ,isa material to cover to even understand what the Hierarchical Problem is and why it is such a big proble This is on the list of Brian Greene’s “Suggestions for Further Reading” in “The Hidden Reality”. There are wapred lot of material which is unrelated or appears twice. The section on the Pauli Principle is riddled with errors and omissions that should emb I reviewed this once before and a tecnical snafu ate it when I tried to up load it 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.
The topic is mostly contemporary particle physics but to add the necessary depth and perspective she covers the late 19th century development of the original “atomic” models as well as classic physics topics such as: I gave liisa one additional star for several new facts about the Randall—Sundrum model, I had discovered though. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In some ways the book is a victim of timing. Is that compensation for nearly p of tedious, repetitive and extremely speculative barely comprehensible explanations? Want to Read saving…. 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. Return to Book Page. Lastly, and I really, really hope that this isn’t the reason for any of the low rankings, she details some of the historically unequal treatment of men and women in physics.
Her background research for the book, on the theories and experiments of extra dimensions and warped geometries, was published in the peer-reviewed Science magazine in The author predicts that if extra passzges exist, particles could be separated to prevent unwanted interactions, and that gravity could be concentrated somewhere in an extra dimension.
It took me lusa 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.
I reviewed this once before and a tecnical snafu ate it when I tried to up load it The last couple chapters deal with theories of extra dimensions and how they might be perceived and detected.
Randwll power to her elbow for doing so. Also included is a glossary of terms that I found helpful. In the handful of places where she writes randa,l this we see how a specific woman’s contribution to a discovery or theory may not be attributed, recognized or rewarded. Now that was a gigantic mistake! Just like Hidden Reality, Warped Passages starts out well enough by explaining some basics about quantum physics but then very quickly snowballs into a mess of jargon and gobbledygook.