LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS: Becoming acquainted with an alternative paradigm

Abstract

This is a colloquium style pedagogical introduction to the paradigm of large extra dimensions. To be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop "Crossing the boundaries: Gauge dynamics at strong coupling," (May 14 - 17, 2009, Minneapolis), Eds. M. Peloso and A. Vainshtein, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2009), p. 3.

Comments: 33 pages, 17 figures; v2. a few references added