Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe PDF
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QUINTESSENCE __________- ---L THE MYSTERY OF MISSING MASS IN THE UNIVERSE LAWRENCE KRAUSS QUINTESSENCE ALSO BY LAWRENCE KRAUSS Genesis: The Lives of an Atom (forthcoming) Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time The Physics of Star Trek Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed B BOOKS A MEMBER OF THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP Copyright © 2000 by Lawrence M. Krauss Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Basic Books, 10 E. 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299. Book design by Victoria Kuskowski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell. Quintessence: The mystery of missing mass in the universe I Lawrence M. Krauss. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-465-03741-0 1. Dark matter (Astronomy) 1. Title. QB791.3 .K74 1999 523.1' 126--dc21 99-047676 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 FOR LILLI DARKNESS THERE WAS AT FIRST BY DARKNESS HIDDEN .... -Hymn of Creation, the Rig Veda CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Edition XVII Preface / A New Copernican Revolution? XXI * * * PART I THE STUFF OF MATTER CHAPTER I / Making Something Out of Nothing 3 CHAPTER 2 / Filling the Void 23 * * * PART II WEIGHING THE UNIVERSE ... AND COMING UP SHORT CHAPTER 3 / First Light on the Darkness 45 CHAPTER 4 / Beyond Our Island in the Night 71 CONTENTS I XII * * * PART III WHY THE UNIVERSE IS FLAT: THE BIG BANG, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, AND THE NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW CHAPTER 5 / Cooking with Gas II3 CHAPTER 6 / The Tip of the Iceberg 138 * * * PART IV THE NEUTRINO SAGA AND THE BIRTH OF COLD DARK MATTER CHAPTER 7 / The Obvious Choice? 171 CHAPTER 8 / Cold Gets Hot 197 CHAPTER 9 / Cold, Colder, Coldest: The New Improved Standard Model 222 * * * PART V THE CANDIDATES. CHAPTER 10 / All Roads Lead to Dark Matter 233 CHAPTER II/Three Modest Proposals 266 * * * PART VI DESPERATELY SEEKING DARK MATTER CHAPTER 12 / The Music of the Spheres? 285 CHAPTER 13 / Of Thermometers and Radios 301
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