Randall, Lisa.
Warped passages : unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden dimensions / Lisa Randall.
— 1st ed. — New York : Ecco, c2005. xii, 499 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Discusses dimensions of space, early twentieth-century advances, the physics of elementary particles, string theory and branes, and proposals for extra-dimension universes.
ISBN 0060531088. — ISBN 9780060531089
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