- Published: 15 September 2012
- ISBN: 9780099532088
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $35.00
Knocking On Heaven's Door
How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe
- Published: 15 September 2012
- ISBN: 9780099532088
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $35.00
Her touch is light and deft; these are not topics that come easily to life, and they are unavoidably complex at times, but Randall's calm authority and clarity of explanation are exemplary
Michael Brooks, New Scientist
Lisa Randall is hugely gifted... Full of passion and jaw-dropping facts... Fascinating
Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday
In this fascinating book, Lisa Randall, professor of theoretical physics at Harvard, explains the experimental research at the LHC and the theories that try to anticipate what they will find
Manjit Kumar, Independent
Randell...tries to illuminate something of the underlying themes driving current scientific thinking.
Richard Lea
An impressive study...essential reading for anyone interested in science
Christopher Potter, Sunday Times
Dazzling ideas... Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow
Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and author of How the Mind Works
Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands... How good it feels to have Lisa Randall's unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion
Lisa Randall does a great job of explaining to the non-physicist the basic scientific approaches of modern physics and what the latest experiments might reveal. This is a must read to appreciate what is coming in our future.
J. Craig Venter
I didn't think it was possible to write a complex, detailed look at the world of physics that the non-scientist could understand, but then Lisa Randall wrote this amazing, insightful and engaging book and proved me wrong.
Carlton Cuse, award-winning writer of television series Lost
Lisa Randall is the rarest rarity--a theoretical physics genius who can write and talk to the rest of us in ways we both understand and enjoy. This book takes the nonspecialist as close as theyll ever get to the inner workings of the cosmos.
Larry Summers
Written with dry wit and ice-cool clarity...Knocking on Heaven's Door is a book that anyone at all interested in science must read. This is surely the science book of the year.
Christopher Potter, Sunday Times