宇宙有它的秘密。它甚至可能隐藏额外的维度，与任何想象中的都不同。一整排令人惊叹的雪在科学的天空上盘旋，包括平行宇宙、扭曲的几何学和三维沉穴。我们对世界的了解比几年前多得多，但我们对宇宙的真实性质却比以往任何时候都更加不确定。我们是否已经发现了一个如此先进的科学发现点，以至于我们所知道的物理定律还远远不够？我们是否会很快接受以前仍停留在科幻小说领域的解释？
丽莎·兰德尔本人正在取得这些非凡的突破，在她的研究中突破了科学的界限，以回答大自然提出的一些最基本的问题。例如，为什么来自整个地球的引力场对一个小磁铁的小拉力如此毫无防御能力？为了寻找这些看似无法解决的问题的答案，物理学家们提出了额外维度的假设，这些维度的存在可能会在科学理解方面带来难以想象的收获。Randall带领我们进入了一个令人难以置信的扭曲、隐藏的维度世界，这些维度支撑着我们所生活的宇宙，描述了我们如何证明它们的存在，同时考察了它们仍然没有回答的问题。
扭曲的段落提供了一个令人振奋的概述，追踪了从20世纪初的物理学到今天粒子物理学和弦论的尖端发现的弧线，解开了当前关于相对论、量子力学和引力的争论。丽莎·兰德尔（Lisa Randall）以一种高度可读的风格，肯定能娱乐和阐释科学，她揭开了科学的神秘面纱，并巧妙地揭开了可能存在于我们刚刚开始了解的世界之外的无数世界的神秘面纱。
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions (EPUB)
The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable conceptsnow rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago – and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have wereached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to acceptexplanations that previously remained in the realm of science fiction?
Lisa Randall is herself making these extraordinary breakthroughs, pushing back the boundaries of science in her research to answer some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature. For example, why is the gravitational field from the entire Earth so defenseless against the small tug of a tiny magnet? Searching for answers to such seemingly irresolvable questions has led physicists to postulate extra dimensions, the presence of which may lead to unimaginable gains in scientific understanding. Randall takes us into the incredible world of warped, hidden dimensions that underpin the universe we live in, describing how we might prove their existence, while examining the questions that they still leave unanswered.
Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor’s edge of today’s particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. In a highly readable style sure to entertain and elucidate, Lisa Randall demystifies the science and beguilingly unravels the mysteries of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond the one we are only now beginning to know.
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