The 4 percent universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality / Richard Panek.
In exhilarating and behind-the-scenes detail, Panek takes his readers on a tour of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled the search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe. Science journalist Panek (The Invisible Century) offe...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2011.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 297 pages ; 24 cm |
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Four-percent universe. |
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Contents:
- More than meets the eye. Let there be light ; What's out there ; Choosing halos
- Lo and behold. Getting in the game ; Staying in the game ; The game
- The face of the deep. The Flat Universe Society ; Hello, Lambda ; The tooth fairy twice
- Less than meets the eye. The curse of the Bambino ; The Thing ; Must come down.