ThoughtCast® » CERN http://www.thoughtcast.org An online watering hole for ideas. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:36:13 +0000 en hourly 1 ThoughtCast® by ThoughtCast, 2005 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) posts 1440 jenny attiyeh, thoughtcast, dershowitz, sam huntington, interview, lisa randall, marc hauser, natalie goldberg An online watering hole for ideas. A podcast and public radio interview program with authors, academics and intellectuals. Jenny Attiyeh Jenny Attiyeh jenny@thoughtcast.org No no http://www.thoughtcast.org/uploads/tc_001_144x144.jpg ThoughtCast® http://www.thoughtcast.org 144 144 Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist http://www.thoughtcast.org/science/lisa-randall-harvard-physicist/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/science/lisa-randall-harvard-physicist/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:32:41 +0000 Jenny http://thoughtcast.org/casts/lisa-randall-harvard-physicist WGBH broadcast this ThoughtCast interview, and also features it on their “Science Luminaries” series, as part of “WGBH Science City.” It was also broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, public radio stations for the Cape and Islands.

Lisa Randall
Professor Randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. Hers is a world of warped geometry, sink-holes and branes — a world that fills glaring gaps in current thinking, and can finally explain why gravity is so ‘weak’!

Now while this might sound like so much Greek — just wait. Randall’s latest book, written for the layman, is called “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions” — so she’s had plenty of practice explaining these high-flying ideas to English majors.

Click here: to listen (28:30 mins).

Click here to listen to Lisa Randall’s lecture at IDEAS Boston on the WGBH Forum Network.

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