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On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
anhaga Started conversation May 20, 2009
Hey, Effers.
I think you might like this book if you decide you want to brush up on the latest in quantum physics.
From the Preface:
'A lot of the descriptive vocabulary everyone uses come from spatial analogies, but these often fail in the tiny realm of elementary particles and the hard-to-picture space with extra dimensions. It seemed to me that less conventional metaphors, even ones about art and food and personal relations, might work at least as well in explaining abstract ideas.'
looks promising, doesn't it?
And then, as epigraph to the Introduction:
'Got to be good looking
'Cause he's so hard to see.'
and I've just reached page 1.
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
Effers;England. Posted May 20, 2009
Blimey yes, anhaga, it does sound good. Can you remind me of the title here.
And I like the idea of reading a book written by a sexy female intellectual.
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
anhaga Posted May 20, 2009
remind you of the title?
'Warped Passages'
just like in the subject line.
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
Effers;England. Posted May 20, 2009
silly me
I didn't read the subject line properly...I read, looking into Lisa Randall's warped passages, and thought it was your own naughty idea.
I can be really dim sometimes. 
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
anhaga Posted May 20, 2009
You have such a dirty mind.
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
Effers;England. Posted May 20, 2009
Actually it's quite ironic; one could almost say I warped the passage of your subject line...with my own warped mind.
On first looking into Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
anhaga Posted May 21, 2009
Okay. I'm about four pages into the actual first chapter and --
You may or may not know this, but George Gamow's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow 'One, Two, Three . . . Infinity' http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/One-Two-Three-Infinity-Facts-George-Gamow/9780486256641-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527george+gamow%2527 was, probably, the absolute most formative book of the first fifteen years of my life --
Lisa Randall's 'Warped Passages' is the 'One, Two, Three . . . Infinity' for the budding polymath of our time.
If this book were required reading for every kid over the age of thirteen, we would be curing cancer, colonizing Europa, and sending a starship to Tau Ceti by the middle of the century.
Anyone taking odds on it happening?
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