title: Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
author:  Lisa Randall 
description: The concept of additional spatial dimensions is as far from intuitive as any idea can be. Indeed, although Harvard physicist Randall does a very nice job of explainingoften deftly through the use of creative analogieshow our universe may have many unseen dimensions, readers' heads are likely to be swimming by the end of the book. Randall works hard to make her astoundingly complex material understandable, providing a great deal of background for recent advances in string and supersymmetry theory. As coauthor of the two most important scientific papers on this topic, she's ideally suited to popularize the idea. What is absolutely clear is that physicists simply do not yet know if there are extra dimensions a fraction of a millimeter in size, dimensions of infinite size or only the dimensions we see. What's also clear is that the large hadron collider, the world's most powerful tool for studying subatomic particles, is likely to provide information permitting scientists to differentiate among these ideas soon after it begins operation in Switzerland in 2007. Randall brings much of the excitement of her field to life as she describes her quest to understand the structure of the universe. B&amp;w illus. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Perry Rhodan
  
  
    
  
  
  ## The Third Power #6
  
  
  # The Secret of
  
  
  # the Time Vault
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### The Secret of the Time Vault
  
  
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  **1/ RHODAN "CONQUERS" GALACTO-CITY**
  
  
  
  
  
  The Gigantic spaceshere was hurtling across the orbital plane of the forty-
  second planet of the sun Vega. It went into the faster-than-light drive and
  set course for the planet Earth, twenty-seven light-years distant.
  
  
  
  
  
  And then-it happened.
  
  
  
  
  
  The huge ship, in an instant, became invisible. It simply dissolved,
  dematerialized, disappeared as if it had never existed. Such is the transition
  from the fourth into the fifth dimension.
  
  
  
  
  
  But no four-dimensional body can consciously exist inside fifth-dimensional
  space, in which neither three-dimensional measuring scales nor chronological
  calibrations have any meaning. The body ceases to be matter subject to the
  laws of the space-time continuum. It beco