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Science
(22 June 2006) Dubbed “one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation” by Newsweek in 2006, Harvard Professor of Physics Lisa Randall is currently studying branes, which are membranous objects in a higher dimensional universe.

She’s currently exploring the possibility that the 3-dimensional universe is actually confined to the surface of a brane, allowing for resolution of many problems in physics by adding extra dimensions to the universe.

She has recently come out with a book titled “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” where she converges from relativity, quantum mechanics, subatomic theory, and much more onto the premise that extra dimensions in this universe may exist.

Dr. Randall has set several records – 1st tenured female physics professor at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. In addition, she has been the most-cited physicist for the last five years. Her two landmark papers, “A Large mass Hierarchy From a Small Extra Dimension” and “An Alternative to Compactification”, have over 2500 citations each.

What’s best is that in 2007, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, named the Large Hadron Collider and located in Switzerland, will be switched on. The tremendously powerful atomic collisions occurring there will allow many of her theories to be tested. We’re all waiting.

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