Evalyn Gates

Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

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Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their unexpected appearance in the cosmic census is upending long-held notions about the nature of the Universe. Astronomers have long known that the Universe is expanding, but everything they could see indicated that gravity should be slowing this spread. Instead, it appears that the Universe is accelerating its expansion and that something stronger than gravity--dark energy--is at work. In Einstein's Telescope Evalyn Gates, a University of Chicago astrophysicist, transports us to the edge of contemporary science to explore the revolutionary tool th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-06238-0
EAN: 9780393062380
Produktnummer: 16224025
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.2 cm 611 g
Gewicht: 611

Über den Autor

Evalyn Gates is the assistant director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, a senior research associate at the University of Chicago, and the former astronomy director of the Adler Planetarium. Her writing has appeared in Physics Today and the Chicago Tribune.