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Lisa Randall

American Physicist

Born: Jun 18, 1962

People Science Think Time World You

Related authors: Brian Greene Edward Teller Freeman Dyson J. Robert Oppenheimer Lawrence M. Krauss Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Richard P. Feynman

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. Lisa Randall

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An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly. Lisa Randall

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The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting. Lisa Randall

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Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is. Lisa Randall

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In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world. Lisa Randall

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it. Lisa Randall

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I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids. Lisa Randall

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When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter. Lisa Randall

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There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me. Lisa Randall

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I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. Lisa Randall

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I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle. Lisa Randall

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The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. Lisa Randall

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I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. Lisa Randall

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You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. Lisa Randall

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The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances. Lisa Randall

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A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. Lisa Randall

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Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness. Lisa Randall

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There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time. Lisa Randall

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