Hiding in the mirror: the quest for alternate realities, from Plato to string theory (by way of Alice in Wonderland, Einstein, and the twilight zone) 9780143038023, 0143038028
Reminiscence: a dimentional love affair -- The privilege to live in space? -- From frogs' legs to fields -- The roa
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English Pages 277 Year 2010;2006
Table of contents :
Reminiscence: a dimentional love affair --
The privilege to live in space? --
From frogs' legs to fields --
The road to relativity --
The fourth dimension --
Disturbing the universe --
The measure of all things --
From Flatland to Picasso --
The first hidden universe: an extra dimension to physics --
There and back again --
Curiouser and curiouser ... --
Out of chaos ... --
Aliens from other dimensions --
An entangled knot --
Super times for the superworld --
M is for Mother --
D is for Braneworld --
A theory of nothing? --
Epilogue: truth and beauty.
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