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"From the one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"-- and bestselling author of Warped Passages--an exhilarating and readable overview of the latest ideas in physics and a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives"--Provided by publisher.
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The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familiar three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is an 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...
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El universo tiene sus secretos. Podría incluso ocultar dimensiones extras, diferentes de todo lo imaginado hasta ahora. Conocemos mucho más sobre el mundo que hace unos pocos años, y sin embargo estamos menos seguros que nunca de cuál es la auténtica naturaleza del universo. 'Habremos alcanzado un punto tan avanzado en los descubrimientos científicos que las leyes de la física tal como las conocemos sencillamente no son suficientes? 'Tendremos...
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On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics-the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs...
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