The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
of Richard Panek
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The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. Â In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. The restâ96 percent of the universeâis completely unknown. Â Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scientists reached this conclusion, and what theyâre doing to find this "dark" matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. Based on in-depth, on-site reporting and hundreds of interviewsâwith everyone from Berkeleyâs feisty Saul Perlmutter and Johns Hopkinsâs meticulous Adam Riess to the quietly revolutionary Vera Rubinâthe book offers an intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled their search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 297 pages
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Publication Date January 10th 2011
- First Publication 12/11/10
- Language English
- ISBN 9780618982448
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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