Lisa Randall, renowned Professor of Physics at Harvard University and one of today’s most influential and highly cited theoretical physicists, discusses and signs her new book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. Randall examines how the latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.

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