Randall lisa theoretical physicist (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards/black spine/blue spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Lisa Randall; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Supplementary Reading; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white drawings, tables, and pie charts. Light rubbing at the upper right jacket tip and lower front right board edge (see photographs); the jacket is otherwise in fine condition. "World-renowned physicist Lisa Randall brings a fresh twist to one of the world's oldest murder mysteries: the death of the dinosaurs. With lively writing and wonderfully accessible explanations, she now convincingly implicates a new suspect as ultimately responsible for the hit: a novel kind of dark matter." - Max Tegmark, physicist. "Only Lisa Randall can take us on such a thrilling scientific journey - from dinosaurs to DNA to comets to dark matter and to the past and future of our species. Randall's research is so thorough, the story so powerful, and her storytelling so compelling that I could not put this book down." - Diddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author. "A provocative and revealing account of how scientists like herself are uncovering deep connections between human existence and the wider universe. A terrific read." - Timothy Ferris, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley and author. "Lisa Randall has produced an intriguing, insightful book that brilliantly weaves together the disparate subjects of cosmology and biology, hypothesizing dark matter as the instigator of Oort Cloud disruption, leading to a chain of events that eventually causes the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. A simple, elegant theory that finally makes sense of mass extinctions. A must-read for anyone interestd in the precariousness of life on earth." - Jack Horner, MacArthur Fellow and author. "Bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door and one of today's most influential and highly cited theoretical physicists, Professor Lisa Randall once again effortlessly delivers fascinating science to the general reader. Weaving together the cosmos' history and our own in an expanding intellectual adventure story, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs takes us from the mysteries of dark matter and our cosmic environment to the conditions for life on Earth. Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter that is embedded in the plane of the Milky Way. Her research challenges the usual assumptions about the simple nature of dark matter and demonstrates how scientists formulate and establish new ideas. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs. With her unique and wde-ranging perspective, Randall connects dark matter to the history of the world in the broadest terms. Bringing in pop culture and social and political viewpoints, she shares with us the latest findings - established and speculative - regarding dark matter, the cosmos, the galaxy, asteriods, comets, and impacts, as well as life's development and extinctions. Randall makes clear how connected the planet is to the makeup of the Universe, but also how fragile our place in the Universe, which evolved over billions of years, might be. In this brilliant and fresh exploration of our cosmic environment, Professor Randall explains the underlying science of our world in the breathtaking tale of a Universe in which the small and the large, the visible and the hidden are intimately related." - excerpt from the jacket flaps. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. New condition white boards with silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Glossary; Math Notes; Permissions and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and diagrams. "Warped Passages promises much and delivers more. An eminent pioneer in the exploration of extra spatial dimensions not only recounts her fascinating trek, but also expertly describes the larger terrain of precursor developments in particle physics that have led to the hypothesis of more dimensions." - David J. Gross, Nobel Prize winner in Physics. "Lisa Randall certainly ranks as one of the leading theorists in cosmology . It is fascinating to envisage that there could be another universe just a few inches away, but inaccessible to us because those few inches are measured in a fourth spatial dimension and we are imprisoned in our three dimensions." - Sir Martin Rees, Royal Society Professor at Kings College and author of Our Cosmic Habitat. "The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and three-dimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world that we did just a few short years ago -- and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have we reached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to accept explanations that previously remained in the realm of science fiction? Lisa Randall is herself making these extraordinary breakthroughs, pushing back the boundaries of science in her research to answer some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature. For example, why is the gravitational field from the entire Earth so defenseless against the small tug of a tiny magnet? Searching for answers to such seemingly irresolvable questions has led physicists to postulate extra dimensions, the presence of which may lead to unimaginable gains in scientific understanding. Randall takes us into the incredible world of warped, hidden dimensions that underpin the universe we live in, describing how we might prove their existence, while examining the questions that they still leave unanswered. Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of today's particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. In a highly readable style sure to entertain and elucidated, Lisa Randall demystifies the science and beguilingly unravels the mysteries of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond the one we are only now beginning to know." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lisa Randall is a leading theoretical physicistt and expert on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. She works on one of the two main competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department and the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard. Her work has attracted enormous interest and is among the most cited in all of science.…