I was inspired by seeing a rerun of Charlie Rose interviewing the physicist Lisa Randall to buy and read her book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions.
Her innovation, if I understand it correctly, is the idea that there could be not only extra dimensions, but extra dimensions that are infinite in size, which we have not previously perceived because we are not physiologically designed to do so. This is the idea that strikes me as so sweeping, yet so simple, that it feels like it might turn out to be right. It’s like when people started to accept that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, despite how it looks to us here on earth.
Apparently the Large Hadron Collider will enable experiments that can help support or disprove the theory. I like to have something to look forward to. Now that the final Harry Potter book is available, I’ll start looking forward to the advent of the Large Hadron Collider. Odds are it won’t destroy the universe.
