Richard Panek

4 Percent Universe

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

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The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.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 rest96 percent of the universeis completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scientists reached this conclusion, and what theyre doing to find this &quote;dark&quote; matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. Based on in-depth, on-site reporting and hundreds of intervie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-547-52356-9
EAN: 9780547523569
Produktnummer: 35585933
Verlag: HMH Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'332 KB

Über den Autor

RICHARD PANEK is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the author of The Invisible Century and Seeing and Believing. He has frequently written for the New York Times—where The 4-Percent Universe began as an article—as well as Discover, Smithsonian, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications.