The elephant in the universe our hundred-year search for dark matter
"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 ha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2022
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/3147689.pdf |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0674276183 9780674276185 9780674276178 0674276175 |