Lisa Randall
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Lisa Randall examines the role of science in everyday life, discusses how to determine which scientific questions to pursue, how scientist go about finding answers, and the roles of risk, creativity, and uncertainty in scientific thinking; explains twenty-first- century ideas in physics and cosmology; describes the goals of the Large Hadron Collider--the largest machine built to date--and covers other related topics.
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On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics-the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs...
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El universo tiene sus secretos. Podría incluso ocultar dimensiones extras, diferentes de todo lo imaginado hasta ahora. Conocemos mucho más sobre el mundo que hace unos pocos años, y sin embargo estamos menos seguros que nunca de cuál es la auténtica naturaleza del universo. 'Habremos alcanzado un punto tan avanzado en los descubrimientos científicos que las leyes de la física tal como las conocemos sencillamente no son suficientes? 'Tendremos...
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In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.
Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that...