Warped Passages - Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Randall is on a quest to explain the fabric of reality. She is a leading theoretical physicist - the world's most cited - and an expert on string theory. She was the first tenured woman in the Princeton Physics department and the first tenured woman theorist at MIT and Harvard. Klappentext Gives us a glimpse into our future. This book allows the reader to understand the questions that scientists deal with at the frontiers of research. It explains the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve and the kind of speculation that is needed even to imagine them. Zusammenfassung Gives us a glimpse into our future. This book allows the reader to understand the questions that scientists deal with at the frontiers of research. It explains the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve and the kind of speculation that is needed even to imagine them.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Randall
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780141012971
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101297-1
• No. of pages: 487
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; popular science, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe