The Technocrat Soapbox
A reader forwarded this email to us that i feel should be shared with all; its a good read on a geeky-yet-incredibly-curious subject: "The Theory of Everything".
Recently, "Newsweek" Magazine featured several high-profile individuals in its year-end, Special Double Edition (Issue January 2, 2006). The one person who caught my attention was Professor Lisa Randall of Harvard University.Professor Randall is a highly decorated Theoretical Physicist in the Academic World. Her research centers on elementary particles called "Strings" (the tiniest components of matter) and how they may travel beyond our 3-dimensional world.
This is no science fiction or magic. The idea of the existence of extra dimensions beyond our own is revolutionary and intriguing. What else is there besides length, width, height, and time? What do those extra dimensions look like? Can we travel to those extra dimensions? How come we cannot feel those extra dimensions?
I decided to write about Professor Randall and her research because those questions turn the world of Physics on its head and forces us to contemplate our own existence.
The article is divided into two parts and can be found at:
A quest to find the "Theory of Everything" - Part I
A quest to find the "Theory of Everything" - Part II