Book Reviews

The New York Times (100 Notable Books of the Year 2005)
“Lisa Randall's chronicle of physicists’ latest efforts to make sense of a universe that gets stranger with every new discovery makes for mind-bending reading. In ‘Warped Passages,’ she gives an engaging and remarkably clear account of how the existence of dimensions beyond the familiar three...may resolve a host of cosmic quandaries. The discovery of extra dimensions...would utterly transform our view of the universe.”
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Newsweek (Who's Next in 2006)
“Until now, string theory has been an entirely abstract, mathematical construct, but the new supercollider may change all that, and if so—if, for example, it shows evidence of particles that travel in, or through, those extra dimensions—it will represent the first great theoretical breakthrough of the 21st century, blazing a path for physics the way relativity did a century ago.”
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The New Yorker
“Writing for a general audience, Randall is patient and kind: she encourages readers to skip around in the text...and starts off each chapter with an allegorical story, in a manner recalling the work of George Gamow. Although the subject itself is intractably difficult to follow, the exuberance of Randall’s narration is appealing.”
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The Globe and Mail
“She has...achieved that perfect balance of drawing the non-specialist reader into the complicated world of her research without coming across as condescending or patronizing.”
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