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Knocking on Heaven's Door

Lisa Randall

  • 453 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 2011
  • 9 editions
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1 About this book

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World is the second non-fiction book by Lisa Randall. It was initially published on September 20, 2011, by Ecco Press. The title is explained in the text: "Scientists knock on heaven's door in an attempt to cross the threshold separating the known from the unknown."

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: science, physics, popular science, and a long read.

  • Science
  • Physics
  • Science, social aspects
  • Popular science
  • Cosmology

2 About Lisa Randall

Born 1962

Lisa Joy Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter.

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