scientific thinking

Big Think Interview with Lisa Randall

Big Think

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I'm grateful to Professor Randall for creating a bridge for non-scientists to begin to be able to grasp the questions that particle physicists are grappling with on a daily basis. I find it thrilling. I turn to science and scientists for metaphors, which are the source of a writer's energy.

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Her books:

Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, by Lisa Randall

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, by Lisa Randall

 

What I'm reading...

I saw Charlie Rose interview Lisa Randall and I immediately wanted to read her books. She has a speaking style that's very interesting; she is able to convey the excitement she sees in particle physics in layman's language -- no small trick, that -- and she is almost bursting with the information she has to pare down. The containment and delivery of bite size bits of info, minus the math which is the road itself, is an art form.


Lisa Randall: Knocking on Heaven's Door - Great Teachers

Physicists Anxiously Await News of the 'God Particle' - NYTimes


Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, by Lisa Randall

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, by Lisa Randall