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Hiding in the Mirror : The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond
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Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 20, 2005
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Editorial Review:
An exploration of mankinds fascination with worlds beyond our ownby the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss an international leader in physics and cosmologyexamines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that may extend tantalizingly beyond the limits of our perception. Krauss examines popular cultures current embrace (and frequent misunderstanding) of such topics as black holes, life in other dimensions, strings, and some of the more extraordinary new theories that propose the existence of vast extra dimensions alongside our own. BACKCOVER: An astonishing and brilliantly written work of popular science.
Science a GoGo A brilliant, thrilling book . . . Youll have so much fun reading that youll hardly notice youre getting a primer on contemporary physics and cosmology.
Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Rating:  - Let me be the first to give this book its first 1 star review.
There was a person who gave this book three stars for issues such as poor editing and insufficient explanation of abstract scientific ideas. I fully agree with these complaints and would like to add one small thing to that list of complaints. This book just straight sucks its not hard to write a book that gives the reader a small bone every so often, for instance he covered complex machines and theories leaving the uninitiated (such as myself)hunting for tidbits of information on our own just to ... Read More
Rating:  - The prehistory of and rise -- and perhaps fall -- of string theory
According to Ed Witten of Princeton's Advanced Institute (former home to BOTH Albert Einstein AND Kurt Godel), modern string theory is a piece of 21st century science that fell early into the 20th century.
According to string apologist Brian Greene, sring theory succeeds where Einstein himself failed...in uniting nature's fundamental forces to form a complete explanation of reality itself...our "Elegant Universe."
According, however, to a growing cadre of notable physicists ... Read More
Rating: - Masterful Explanation of a Complex Subject to General Readers
Lawrence M. Krauss has steered a course perfectly between the Scylla of scaring the general reader off with massive amounts of math and the Charybdis of dumbing down his subject. It's not an easy book to read, but then it's not exactly an easy subject. He has a good time, but not to excess, with some of the sillier New Age and PoMo attempts at appropriating physics for one or another version of the newer superstition, but the main thrust of the book is his attempt to convey to us general readers what's ... Read More
Rating: - a guide through the pitfalls of science careers...
If you pay close attention, then you can hear Lawrence Krauss cautioning you to beware of taking science as a religion. Krauss explains his own immunity to falling victim to this affliction by way of having been caught in the crossfire between the two insititutions of science and religion.
I applaud his insistence on taking the physical evidence as evidence of itself only while resisting the allure of the reported enthrallling beauty of the equations and precision in physical theory.
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Rating:  - A superficial view of a multi-dimensional world
After reading Brian Green's "The Elegant Universe", I wanted to learn more on the possibility of a world made of more than 4 dimensions, time included. L. Krauss seemed to offer the opportunity not only to learn more about these extra dimensions based on scientific knowledge but also to melt it with an insightful adventure into the history of human creativity which has already imagined such world. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed. Both the scientific and artistic parts are poor and shallow, a shame ... Read More
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