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The elephant in the universe : our hundred-year search for dark matter / Govert Schilling.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674248991
- ISBN: 0674248996
- Physical Description: xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Ear. Matter, but not as we know it -- Underground phantoms -- The pioneers -- The halo effect -- Flattening the curve -- Cosmic cartography -- Big bang baryons -- Radio recollections -- Part II: Tusk. Into the cold -- Miraculous wimps -- Simulating the universe -- The heretics -- Behind the lens -- Macho culture -- The runaway universe -- Pie in the sky -- Telltale patterns -- Part III: Trunk. The xenon wars -- Catching the wind -- Messengers from outer space -- Delinquent dwarfs -- Cosmological tension -- Elusive ghosts -- Dark crisis -- Seeing the invisible. |
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| Subject: | Dark matter (Astronomy) > History. Cosmology > History. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Gettysburg Library | 523.1126 SCHILLING (Text)
Memorial:
This book is donated in memory of Philip L. Yasovsky by the Biglerville H.S. Class of 1962
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35740635879877 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Allentown Public Library | 523.1126 SCHI (Text) | 34455007006097 | Adult Nonfiction 1st FL | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | 523.112 (Text) | 33062009620361 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hughes Library | 523.1126 SCH (Text) | 32378005160579 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
