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Warped passages: unraveling the mysteries of the universe's hidden dimensions

Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 March 2006
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TL;DR

Warped passages unraveling the mysteries of the universes hidden dimensions, where people are facing with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer, and end up in malicious downloads.

Abstract

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&#8212taking 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.

Keywords

Physics and Astronomy