Dark Cosmos In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy

Name: Dark Cosmos In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
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ISBN: 9780061130335

ISBN-10: 0061130338

ISBN-13: 9780061130335

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Authors: Dan Hooper

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Everyone knows that there are things no one can see, for example, the air you're breathing or a black hole, to be more exotic. But not everyone knows that what we can see makes up only 5 percent of the Universe. The rest is totally invisible to us. The invisible stuff comes in two varieties-dark matter and dark energy. One holds the Universe together while the other tears it apart. What these forces really are has been a mystery for as long as anyone has suspected they were there, but the latest discoveries of experimental physics have brought us closer to that knowledge. Particle physicist Dan Hooper takes his readers, with wit, grace, and a keen knack for explaining the toughest ideas…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction


Preface



Our Dark Universe



Dead Stars, Black Holes, Planets, and Baseballs



Darkness from the Quantum World



A Dark Animal in the Quantum Zoo



A Grand Symmetry



The Hunt



Gravity, Strings, and Other Dimensions of Space



In the Beginning



The Weight of Emptiness



An Unlikely Universe?



Cosmic Offspring



The Skeptics



Visions of the Future


Index