The elephant in the universe : our hundred-year search for dark matter / Govert Schilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schilling, Govert, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark matter (Astronomy)--History.

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Cosmology--History.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Ear

1. Matter, but Not as We Know It

2. Underground Phantoms

3. The Pioneers

4. The Halo Effect

5. Flattening the Curve

6. Cosmic Cartography

7. Big Bang Baryons

8. Radio Recollections

pt. II Tusk

9. Into the Cold

10. Miraculous WIMPs

11. Simulating the Universe

12. The Heretics

13. Behind the Lens

14. MACHO Culture

15. The Runaway Universe

16. Pie in the Sky

17. Telltale Patterns

pt. III Trunk

18. The Xenon Wars

19. Catching the Wind

20. Messengers from Outer Space

21. Delinquent Dwarfs

22. Cosmological Tension

23. Elusive Ghosts

24. Dark Crisis

25. Seeing the Invisible.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780674248991

0674248996

OCLC:

1322485394