"Fascinating . . . One of the most important stories in the
history of science."-- "Washington Post"
In recent years, a handful of scientists has been racing to explain
a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists
of the matter that makes up you, me, and every star and planet. The
rest is completely unknown.
Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scientists reached
this cosmos-shattering conclusion. In vivid detail, he narrates the
quest to find the "dark" matter and an even more bizarre substance
called dark energy that make up 96 percent of the universe. This is
perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will
bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize. Based on hundreds
of interviews and in-depth, on-site reporting, the book offers an
intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful
collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have
redefined science and reinvented the universe.
"A lively new account of twentieth-century (plus a little
twenty-first-century) cosmology . . . The book is as much about how
the science got done as about the science itself."--"Salon"
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