| Description |
xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Dark matter (Astronomy) -- History.
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Cosmology -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780674248991 hc. |
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