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1、Page1of230LISARANDALLWarpedPassagesUnravelingtheMysteriesoftheUniverse'sHiddenDimensions©2005ISBN-13:9780060531089Contentsmk:@MSITStore:H:Big%20BagTemporariesStrngwrldBooksRandall%20L.%20...03.05.2010Page2of230PrefaceandAcknowledgementsviiI.DimensionsofSpace(andThought)Int

2、roduction11EntrywayPassages:DemystifyingDimensions112RestrictedPassages:Rolled-upExtraDimensions313ExclusivePassages:Branes,Braneworlds,andtheBulk504ApproachestoTheoreticalPhysics63II.EarlyTwentieth-CenturyAdvances5Relativity:TheEvolutionofEinstein'sGravity846QuantumMechanics:Pri

3、ncipledUncertainty,thePrincipalUncertainties,andtheUncertaintyPrinciple115III.ThePhysicsofElementaryParticles7TheStandardModelofParticlePhysics:Matter'sMostBasicKnownStructure1508ExperimentalInterlude:VerifyingtheStandardModel1799Symmetry:TheEssentialOrganizingPrinciple19010TheOr

4、iginofElementaryParticleMasses:SpontaneousSymmetryBreakingandtheHiggsMechanism20311ScalingandGrandUnification:RelatingInteractionsatDifferentlengthsandEnergies22112TheHierarchyProblem:TheOnlyEffectiveTrickle-DownTheory24013Supersymmetry:ALeapBeyondtheStandardModel256IV.StringTheo

5、ryandBranes14Allegro(MaNonTroppo)PassageforStrings27715SupportingPassages:BraneDevelopment30316BustlingPassages:Braneworlds321V.ProposalsforExtra-DimensionalUniverses17SparselyPopulatedPassages:MultiversesandSequestering334mk:@MSITStore:H:Big%20BagTemporariesStrngwrldBooks

6、Randall%20L.%20...03.05.2010Page3of23018LeakyPassages:FingerprintsofExtraDimensions35119VoluminousPassages:LargeExtraDimensions36220WarpedPassage:ASolutiontotheHierarchyProblem38521TheWarpedAnnotated"Alice"41422ProfoundPassage:AnInfiniteExtraDimension41823AReflectiveandExpansiveP

7、assage433VI.ClosingThoughts24ExtraDimensions:AreYouInorOut?44625(In)Conclusion455Glossary459MathNotes472Permissions481Index483PrefaceandAcknowledgmentsWhenIwasayounggirl,IlovedtheplayandintellectualgamesinmathproblemsorinbookslikeAliceinWonderland.Butalthoughreadingwasoneofmyfavo

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