The elephant in the universe
our hundred-year search for dark matter
The elephant in the universe
our hundred-year search for dark matter
Book - 2022
"If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit"--
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2022.
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| 264 | 1 | |a Cambridge, Massachusetts : |b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |c 2022. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 364 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: Ear. Matter, but not as we know it -- Underground phantoms -- The pioneers -- The halo effect -- Flattening the curve -- Cosmic cartography -- Big bang baryons -- Radio recollections -- Part II: Tusk. Into the cold -- Miraculous wimps -- Simulating the universe -- The heretics -- Behind the lens -- Macho culture -- The runaway universe -- Pie in the sky -- Telltale patterns -- Part III: Trunk. The xenon wars -- Catching the wind -- Messengers from outer space -- Delinquent dwarfs -- Cosmological tension -- Elusive ghosts -- Dark crisis -- Seeing the invisible. | |
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