- Branes, Cosmology, Particles (Nuclear physics), Philosophy
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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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Lisa Randall
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 500
- Publisher
- Mondadori, Harper Perennial, Ecco
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780060531096
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“The word "dimension," like so many words that describe space or motion through it, has many interpretations-and by now I think I've heard them all.”
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