Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

Knocking on Heaven's Door;

All of you out there with a love for the mysteries of quantum science and a child-like expectation for the 21st Century's dawning discoveries in this "intimidating" field - buy and devour this fun book! 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 an...