Warped passages : unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden dimensions
Lisa Randall.
1st ed.
New York : Ecco, ©2005.
xii, 499 págs. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0060531088, 9780060531089
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Resumen: Discusses dimensions of space, early twentieth-century advances, the physics of elementary particles, string theory and branes, and proposals for extra-dimension universes.
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Contenido
- Introduction
- Entryway passages : demystifying dimensions
- Restricted passages : rolled-up extra dimensions
- Exclusive passages : branes, braneworlds, and the bulk
- Approaches to theoretical physics
- Relativity : the evolution of Einstein's gravity
- Quantum mechanics : principled uncertainty, the principal uncertainties, and the uncertainty principle
- The standard model of particle physics : matter's most basic known structure
- Experimental interlude : verifying the standard model
- Symmetry : the essential organizing principle
- The origin of elementary particle masses : spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism
- Scaling and grand unification : relating interactions at different lengths and energies
- The hierarchy problem : the only effective trickle-down theory
- Supersymmetry : a leap beyond the standard model
- Allegro (ma non troppo) passage for strings
- Supporting passages : brane development
- Bustling passages : braneworlds
- Sparsely populated passages : multiverses and sequestering
- Leaky passages : fingerprints of extra dimensions
- Voluminous passages : large extra dimensions
- Warped passage : a solution to the hierarchy problem
- The warped annotated "Alice"
- Profound passage : an infinite extra dimension
- A reflective and expansive passage
- Extra dimensions : are you in or out?
- (In)conclusion.
