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The fifth essence : the search for dark matter in the universe
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More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle proposed adding a new substance to the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water--quintessence. Here, there is overwhelming evidence that more than 90 percen...
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle proposed adding a new substance to the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water--quintessence. Here, there is overwhelming evidence that more than 90 percent of the universe is made up of a mysterious form of matter. Illustrated.
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- Lawrence M. Krauss
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- English
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- New York : Basic Books, [1989]
- ©1989
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- xvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465023752, 0465023754
- OCLC
- ocm20130057
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-332).
- pt. I. The stuff of matter. Making something out of nothing -- Filling the void -- pt. II. Weighing the universe...and coming up short. First light on the darkness -- Beyond our island in the night -- pt. III. Why the universe is flat: the big bang, large-scale structure, and the need for something new. Cooking with gas -- The tip of the iceberg -- pt. IV. The neutrino saga and the birth of cold dark matter. The obvious choice? -- Cold gets hot -- pt. V. The candidates. All roads lead to dark matter -- Three modest proposals -- pt. VI. Desperately seeking dark matter. The music of the spheres? -- Of thermometers and radios -- Epilogue: The best of times? -- Appendix A. Orders of magnitude and the scale of the universe -- Appendix B. A really brief history of time