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THE ELEPHANT IN THE UNIVERSE - OUR HUNDRED-YEAR...

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book A BBC Sky at Night Best Book   ¿An impressively comprehensive
bird¿s-eye view of a research topic that is both many decades established and yet still at the
very cutting edge of astronomy and physics.¿ ¿Katie Mack  Wall Street Journal   ¿Schilling has
craftily combined his lucid and accessible descriptions of science with the personal story of
those unlocking the finer details of the missing mass mystery. The result is enthralling¿A
captivating scientific thriller.¿ ¿ BBC Sky at Night   ¿Fascinating¿A thorough and sometimes
troubling account of the hunt for dark matter¿You will come away with a very good understanding
of how the universe works. Well  our universe  anyway.¿ ¿Michael Brooks  New Scientist   When
you train a telescope on outer space  you can see luminous galaxies  nebulae  stars  and
planets. But if you add all that together  it constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the
universe. Despite decades of research  the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We
call it dark matter.  Physicists have devised huge  sensitive instruments to search for dark
matter  which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos¿some unknown elementary particle. Yet
so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. It is so elusive that some scientists are
beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the
current paradigms of cosmology. Govert Schilling interviews believers and heretics and paints a
colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research. The Elephant in the
Universe is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the
universe.

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