The elephant in the universe our hundred-year search for dark matter
Part I. Ear: Matter, but not as we know it -- Underground phantoms -- The pioneers -- The halo effect -- Flattening the curve -- Cosmic cartography -- Big bang baryons -- Radio recollections -- Part II. Tusk: Into the cold -- Miraculous wimps -- Simulating the universe -- The heretics -- Behind the...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part I. Ear: Matter, but not as we know it -- Underground phantoms -- The pioneers -- The halo effect -- Flattening the curve -- Cosmic cartography -- Big bang baryons -- Radio recollections -- Part II. Tusk: Into the cold -- Miraculous wimps -- Simulating the universe -- The heretics -- Behind the lens -- Macho culture -- The runaway universe -- Pie in the sky -- Telltale patterns -- Part III. Trunk: The xenon wars -- Catching the wind -- Messengers from outer space -- Delinquent dwarfs -- Cosmological tension -- Elusive ghosts -- Dark crisis -- Seeing the invisible. "If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Auf dem Umschlag: "With a foreword by Avi Loeb" Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 364 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780674248991 978-0-674-24899-1 |