^^^^^ Somehow I think that book might be a little more advanced than my normal reading material whilst on the crappa.
Anything written over the comprehension levels of People, In Touch, US Weekly, loses my interest quicker than you can say "hey look, corn".
Actually, that book is really written for normal people with an interest in science.
I'm not trying to kid anyone here, i'm not a physicist, but people with general thinking skills grasp these topics quite easily. There are no math or formulas in the book.
I can just imagine these guys powering this device up and giggling while their lab assistants are carefully setting up beer cans on a fence post 1000 miles away.
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Very true. For sure you need to have an interest to read these books. It's just like anything. If you don't care about it, it won't be fun and you won't enjoy it.
But for people who are interested in the subject, there are lots of books you can find that you don't need to be a physicist or mathematician to read. No need to be intimidated or say "i can't read about that subject because I don't understand it".
Myself personally I have those kinds of books as my bathroom reading material, but I'm under no illusion of being anything remotely close to normal
Yeah, same here. Me and a realtor at work will sit around and shoot the breeze about quantum theory, topology, chaos theory.... and people just walk by looking at us like we've got three heads.
Brian Greene has two books, 'The Elegant Universe', and a sequel 'The Fabric of the Cosmos.' Neither is really good if you are not already at least somewhat familiar with the subjects..
I might have to pick up that Hyperspace one.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed’s research in theoretical physics is driven by attempting to address these mysteries. Much of his work has centered around addressing the hierarchy problem. Together with Savas Dimopoulos and Gia Dvali, he suggested that the extreme weakness of gravity can be attributed to the existence of large extra dimensions of space, perhaps as large as 100 microns in size, with the scale of quantum gravity lowered to the electroweak scale. This opens up the possibility that quantum gravitational effects can be probed at accelerators and even in table-top experiments. In a different direction, together with Andy Cohen and Howard Georgi he has constructed models where (non-gravitational) extra dimensions are generated dynamically from purely four-dimensional models. This has also led to new approaches to the hierarchy problem. He has also investigated the possibility that gravity is modified at large distances and times in an effort to address various cosmological problems. Most recently, together with Dimopoulos, he has explored the possibility that the fine-tunings for the cosmological constant and hierarchy problems find a common explanation within a huge landscape of possible low-energy worlds that may exist in string theory, leading to a novel proposal for "split" supersymmetry at the large hadron collider.
I can just imagine these guys powering this device up and giggling while their lab assistants are carefully setting up beer cans on a fence post 1000 miles away.
Okay that just made me laugh like Dr.Hibert from the simpsons...
Have I been reading too much Dan Brown but is there a possibility that this thing will be used for developing WMD?
If you mean create mini-blackholes accidentally on the face of the earth? Sure, that's a weapon of mass annhiliation. Maybe we'll open gates to hell or alien worlds like in Doom and Half-Life.
If you mean create mini-blackholes accidentally on the face of the earth? Sure, that's a weapon of mass annhiliation. Maybe we'll open gates to hell or alien worlds like in Doom and Half-Life.
I was thinking along the lines of using antimatter in weapons.
