Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
by Lisa Randall

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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Author: Lisa Randall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0060531096
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Reviews of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Book Review: "scientific mysteries" that fulminate thrilling insights
Summary: 5 Stars

Dr. Randall's Warped Passages will swiftly and easily transport you into a great world of fascinating science and enlightening ideas. Yet, the warped passages she has opened for her readers to traverse make it so very easy for one to fall through that rabbit hole and explore ideas usually mired in needlessly complicated "math."
Some have here criticized and detracted from Warped Passages. But these detractors self-evidently miss the gems in this easy-to-read inspiring introduction and at the same time cutting-edge treatment of esoteric science; typically placed just beyond the reach of the "average" scientifically curious folk. Among whom I find myself, even after devouring a considerable number of "popular science" helpers.
This exhilarating book, authored by a highly-respected and first tenured woman theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard, and first tenured woman at the Princeton physics department, is nothing less than the forbidden fruit of that tree from which we were not to take. But take we did.
And thank God for that.
Warped Passages is a unique book which deeply inspires and impels one to research deeper into those ideas so very clearly and accessibly explored in its fluid,easy 458 pages.
At chapter 22, Lisa Randall includes these memorable lines by Vanessa from The Rocky Horror Picture Show -"From another dimension, With voyeuristic intention, Let's do the time warp again." And that is exactly what Randall's Warp Passages enable the reader to easily and pleasingly do ....
Buy this great book, gift it to friends as I have done and advance the understanding of complicated science mysteries.

Summary of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now.

Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory. One of the world's leading theoretical physicists, Lisa Randall provides astonishing scientific possibilities that, until recently, were restricted to the realm of science fiction. Unraveling the twisted threads of the most current debates on relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity, she explores some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature—taking us into the warped, hidden dimensions underpinning the universe we live in, demystifying the science of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond our own.

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