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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World ハードカバー – 2011/9/20
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“Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands….How good it feels to have Lisa Randall’s unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.”
—Richard Dawkins
“Dazzling ideas….Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.”
—Steven Pinker
The bestselling author of Warped Passages, one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” Lisa Randall gives us an exhilarating overview of the latest ideas in physics and offers a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives. Featuring fascinating insights into our scientific future born from the author’s provocative conversations with Nate Silver, David Chang, and Scott Derrickson, Knocking on Heaven’s Door is eminently readable, one of the most important popular science books of this or any year. It is a necessary volume for all who admire the work of Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian Greene, Simon Singh, and Carl Sagan; for anyone curious about the workings and aims of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and most expensive machine ever built by mankind; for those who firmly believe in the importance of science and rational thought; and for anyone interested in how the Universe began…and how it might ultimately end.
- 本の長さ464ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Ecco
- 発売日2011/9/20
- 寸法15.24 x 3.58 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-10006172372X
- ISBN-13978-0061723728
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“Startlingly honest [and] beautifully written. . . . Randall’s calm authority and clarity of explanation are exemplary. . . . Like being taken behind the curtain in Oz and given a full tour by the wizard.” -- NewScientist.com
“[Randall is] one of the more original theorists at work in the profession today. . . . She gives a fine analysis of the affinity between scientific and artistic beauty, comparing the broken symmetries of a Richard Serra sculpture to those at the core of the Standard Model.” -- New York Times Book Review
“[A] whip-smart inquiry into the scientific work being conducted in particle physics. . . . [Randall] brings a thrumming enthusiasm to the topic, but she is unhurried and wryly humorous. . . . [Knocking on Heaven’s Door] dazzles like the stars.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The general reader’s indispensable passport to the frontiers of science.” -- Booklist (starred review)
“[Randall’s] eloquent book details the trials and tribulations of the [Large Hadron Collider], from conception to implementation, and takes us on a grand tour of the underlying science.” -- Nature
“Offers the reader a glimpse of the future. . . . An enlightening and exciting read.” -- San Francisco Book Review
“Valuable and engaging. . . . Randall’s generous cornucopia of ideas, her engaging style, and above all her deep excitement about physics make this a book that deserves a wide readership.” -- American Scientist
“Full of passion and jaw-dropping facts. . . . A fascinating account of modern particle physics, both theoretical and practical.” -- The Independent on Sunday
“Beautifully written. . . . An impressive overview of what scientists (of any kind) get up to, how they work and why science is an inherently creative endeavor.” -- Times Higher Education (London)
“Randall’s witty, accessible discussion reveals the effort and wonder at hand as scientists strive to learn who we are and where we came from.” -- Publishers Weekly
“Randall manages to transform . . . experiments at distant and unfamiliar scales into crucial acts in a cosmic drama.” -- Daily Beast
“An exciting read about the very edge of modern science. . . . [Knocking on Heaven’s Door] inspires a sense of awe, appreciation and excitement for what the future holds.” -- Daily Texan
“Very accessible, readable, and appealing to a broad audience. . . . Randall’s passion and excitement for science and physics is infectious and welcome in our digital age.” -- New York Journal of Books
“Lisa Randall has written Knocking on Heaven’s Door in the same witty, informal style with which she explains physics in person, making complex ideas fascinating and easy to understand. Her book . . . just might make you think differently―and encourage you to make smarter decisions about the world.” -- President Bill Clinton
“A deep and deeply wonderful explanation of how science―and the rest of the known universe―actually works.” -- Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
“Lisa Randall is the rarest rarity―a theoretical physics genius who can write and talk to the rest of us in ways we both understand and enjoy. This book takes nonspecialists as close as they’ll ever get to the inner workings of the cosmos.” -- Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University
“Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands: a battle on two fronts―against superstition and ignorance on one flank, and against pseudo-intellectual obscurantism on the other. How good it feels to have Lisa Randall’s unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.” -- Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion
“Randall’s lucid explanations of . . . the frontiers of physics-including her own dazzling ideas-are highly illuminating, and her hearty defense of reason and science is a welcome contribution. . . . Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.” -- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought
“Lisa Randall does a great job of explaining to the non-physicist the basic science approaches of modern physics and what the latest experiments might reveal. . . . This is a must read to appreciate what is coming in our future.” -- J. Craig Venter, sequencer of the human genome and developer of the first synthetic life
“I didn’t think it was possible to write a complex, detailed look at the world of physics that the non-scientist could understand, but then Lisa Randall wrote this amazing, insightful, and engaging book and proved me wrong.” -- Carlton Cuse, award–winning producer and writer of Lost
著者について
Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Professor Randall was included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2007 and was among Esquire magazine's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century." Professor Randall's two books, Warped Passages (2005) and Knocking on Heaven's Door (2011) were New York Times bestsellers and 100 Notable Books. Her stand-alone e-book, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space, was published in 2012.
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- 出版社 : Ecco (2011/9/20)
- 発売日 : 2011/9/20
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 464ページ
- ISBN-10 : 006172372X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061723728
- 寸法 : 15.24 x 3.58 x 22.86 cm
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- - 838位Astrophysics & Space Science
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頁数の20%を費やして、科学オンチが抱き易い科学への誤解や宗教との差異、科学史、計測学の常識、金融危機まで言及してリスクの考え方、科学者の採るべき態度などを解説しているのは自己矛盾だと思った。最先端の物理学に興味を持つ人とは読者が違い、一方に興味を持つ人は他方を冗長と思うだろうからだ。
LHC加速器のHardwareの説明に1/3の頁数を割いている。滅法詳しい解説で、その工学的な困難と成果がよく分かる。LHCがBlack Holeを生成して地球を呑みこむリスクを心配して、米国ではLHC運転差止め訴訟まで起きたが、その心配は無いことを丁寧に説明している。
CERN研が2011年12月13日に、LHCでHiggs粒子発見の兆候が見えたと発表したことがマスコミを賑わした。本書は勿論それ以前の出版だが、Higgs粒子とその課題の解説が詳しい。また質量と重力に関わる未解明の問題点を解決しようとする仮説の幾つかを詳述する。その一つは筆者が案出し有望視している仮説で、我々が住む4次元の時空間に重力がWarpする1軸を加えた理論である。LHCでは届かない「ひも理論」String Theoryをも概説する。
最後に宇宙物理学の課題を解説し、暗黒物質と暗黒エネルギーを論じ、暗黒物質の候補と著者が考える粒子がLHCで発見できる可能性が高いとしている。
物理学の最先端領域を網羅する厚さが重荷に感じられる著書だが、時間を掛けて読むに値するというのが読後の感想だった。
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Describe el funcionamiento del LHC y los experimentos que se llevarán a cabo con los principales detectores de partículas y la posibilidad de comprobar la existencia de la teoría de la supersimetría en la que ella es investigadora. También toca temas como alternativas al modelo estándar de partículas, detección de materia oscura, dimensiones extras y teoría de cuerdas.
Un repaso de la situación actual de la física y la importancia de hacer experimentos para verificar teorías, narrado de forma didáctica e intercalado con experiencias de primera mano en sus investigaciones.
Un gran libro.
I just discovered Dr. Lisa Randall last week from a random YouTube search. I saw a lecture and an interview. I was riveted!
I rightaway ordered this book and started reading. It's a page turner. Great narrating style, straight forward explanations, and no nonsense language. I see she has taken so much pain to explain the science to someone - a lay reader like me.
I am ordering all now.
Bob Dylan's timeless, quintessentially noir, 1973's Knocking on Heaven's Door - soundtrack for Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid - has become one of America's true classic poems/songs of all time and one of the most loved by musicians spanning musical genres.. It is definitely not hyperbole to equate Dr. Lisa Randall's second, pop-science masterpiece, with Dylan's classic namesake!
Dr. Randall's second work for us recreational science lovers, will, I am sure, also become a timeless, deeply-engaging inspiring unique work of art in this now crowded genre. And, Dr. Randall's Knocking on Heaven's Door also happens to be a reader's joyride through the history and cutting edge of quantum physics.
Her new, very fun to read, work begins with the first chapters functioning seamlessly as a prologue/contextual primer for the current work in quantum physics and a how-things-work explanation of that mysterious Large Hadron Collider, lately in the news. With her second literary opus, Dr. Lisa Randall's popular quantum science work for the rest of us has hit its mark with the power of a hydrogen bomb ... again!
Anyone out there with a brain and a natural love for the mysteries of science will be captivated by this masterpiece. Not really getting the point others tried to make here and elsewhere about how this is "two books in one" and all that, I actually loved the "two-book", dual-storyline that Dr. Randall implemented here. It's as if I, the basic lay person, had the privilege of sitting somewhere serene sharing a glass or two of great wine just listening to one of the most prominent of the most brilliant of theoretical physicists, passionately and eloquently thinking out loud about her career, the philosophical wrinkles of it and reflecting on her past, present and future ... unedited! And then to have that brilliant woman masterfully tutor you through the science of it all in understandable detail and accessible language. NO boring, arcane standoffish "math" here.
Buy this book and keep it forever and tell about it to your friends!
Professors - assign it to your classes.
Book clubs - share and discuss it over your favorite glass of water or wine or coffee or beer.
Workaholic overworked professionals like me - take a break and devour it as refreshing mana at Heaven's Door.