Dark cosmos :
Hooper, Dan, 1976-
Dark cosmos : in search of our universe's missing mass and energy / Dan Hooper. - First Edition. - xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. Our dark universe -- Chapter 2. Dead stars, black holes, planets, and baseballs -- Chapter 3. Darkness from the quantum world -- Chapter 4. A dark animal in the quantum zoo -- Chapter 5. A grand symmetry -- Chapter 6. The hunt -- Chapter 7. Gravity, strings, and other dimensions of space -- Chapter 8. In the beginning -- Chapter 9. The weight of emptiness -- Chapter 10. An unlikely universe? -- Chapter 11. Cosmic offspring -- Chapter 12. The skeptics -- Chapter 13. Visions of the future.
Explores the nature and composition of dark matter and dark energy, discussing how they function to hold together and expand the universe, and introduces the modern theory of particle physics as it pertains to the cosmos' dark areas.
9780061130335 006113032X 9780061130328
2006044333
Cosmology--Popular works.
Physics--Popular works.
Cosmología--Obras populares.
Física--Obras populares.
523.1126
Dark cosmos : in search of our universe's missing mass and energy / Dan Hooper. - First Edition. - xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. Our dark universe -- Chapter 2. Dead stars, black holes, planets, and baseballs -- Chapter 3. Darkness from the quantum world -- Chapter 4. A dark animal in the quantum zoo -- Chapter 5. A grand symmetry -- Chapter 6. The hunt -- Chapter 7. Gravity, strings, and other dimensions of space -- Chapter 8. In the beginning -- Chapter 9. The weight of emptiness -- Chapter 10. An unlikely universe? -- Chapter 11. Cosmic offspring -- Chapter 12. The skeptics -- Chapter 13. Visions of the future.
Explores the nature and composition of dark matter and dark energy, discussing how they function to hold together and expand the universe, and introduces the modern theory of particle physics as it pertains to the cosmos' dark areas.
9780061130335 006113032X 9780061130328
2006044333
Cosmology--Popular works.
Physics--Popular works.
Cosmología--Obras populares.
Física--Obras populares.
523.1126