The 4 Percent Universe : Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality PDF
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The 4 Percent Universe Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and The Race to Discover the Rest of Reality Richard Panek Table of Contents Title Page Table of Contents ... Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Prologue PART I 1. Let There Be Light 2. What's Out There 3. Choosing Halos PART II 4. Getting in the Game 5. Staying in the Game 6. The Game PART III 7. The Flat Universe Society 8. Hello, Lambda 9. The Tooth Fairy Twice PART IV 10. The Curse of the Bambino 11. The Thing 12. Must Come Down Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index Footnotes HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Boston New York 2011 Copyright © 2011 by Richard Panek All rights reserved For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. www.hmhbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Panek, Richard. The four-percent universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality / Richard Panek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-618-98244-8 1. Cosmology. 2. Physics. 3. Astrophysics. I. Title. QB981.P257 2010 523.1—dc22 2010025838 Book design by Lisa Diercks This book is typeset in Bulmer, Hydra Text, and Belizio. Printed in the United States of America DOC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Some passages in this book appeared, usually in different form, in Discover, the New York Times Magazine, Sky & Telescope, and Smithsonian. Portions of chapter 11 are based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0739893. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For Meg, with love "I know," said Nick. "You don't know," said his father. —Ernest Hemingway Contents Acknowledgments [>] Prologue [>] PART I. MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE 1. Let There Be Light [>] 2. What's Out There [>] 3. Choosing Halos [>] PART II. LO AND BEHOLD 4. Getting in the Game [>] 5. Staying in the Game [>] 6. The Game [>] PART III. THE FACE OF THE DEEP 7. The Flat Universe Society [>] 8. Hello, Lambda [>] 9. The Tooth Fairy Twice [>] PART IV. LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE 10. The Curse of the Bambino [>] 11. The Thing [>] 12. Must Come Down [>] Epilogue [>]
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