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Knocking On Heaven's Door
Lisa Randall
How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Ecco
September 2011
On Sale: September 20, 2011
464 pages
ISBN: 006172372X
EAN: 9780061723728
Kindle: B004XVN8EC
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Non-Fiction
From one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in
the world, a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives The latest developments in physics have the potential to
radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup,
its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its
operation. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an exhilarating and
accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned
argument for the significance of science. There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall. The
bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert in both
particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know
of) and cosmology (the study of the largest). In Knocking on
Heaven’s Door, she explores how we decide which scientific
questions to study and how we go about answering them. She
examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty,
and truth in scientific thinking through provocative
conversations with leading figures in other fields (such as
the chef David Chang, the forecaster Nate Silver, and the
screenwriter Scott Derrickson), and she explains with wit
and clarity the latest ideas in physics and cosmology.
Randall describes the nature and goals of the largest
machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous
particle accelerator below the border of France and
Switzerland—as well as recent ideas underlying cosmology and
current dark matter experiments. The most sweeping and exciting science book in years,
Knocking on Heaven’s Door makes clear the biggest scientific
questions we face and reveals how answering them could
ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from.
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