Richard Panek

4 Percent Universe (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 they're doing to find this "dark" matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. Based on in-depth, on-site reporting and hundreds of interviewswith everyone from Berkeley's feisty Saul Perlmutter and Johns Hopkins's meticulous Adam Riess to the quietly revolutionary Vera Rubinthe book offers an intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled their search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547523569
• Artikelnr.: 52473997

Autorenporträt

RICHARD PANEK, a Guggenheim Fellow in science writing, is the author of  The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, which won the American Institute of Physics communication award in 2012, and the co-author with Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York City.