Evalyn Gates

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

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Splendidly satisfying reading, designed for a nonspecialist audience.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewEvalyn Gates, a talented astrophysicist, transports readers to the edge of contemporary science to explore the revolutionary tool—”Einstein's telescope”—that is unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Einstein's telescope, or gravitational lensing, is so-called for the way gravity causes space to distort and allow massive objects to act like lenses,” amplifying and distorting the images of objects behind them. By allowing for the detection of mass where no light is found, scientists can map out the distribution of dark matter and come a step cl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-07133-7
EAN: 9780393071337
Produktnummer: 34246180
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'766 KB
Abbildungen: 8 pages of color; 40 b/w illustrations

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.