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2011

Format:	Book
Author:	Panek, Richard.
Title:	The 4 percent universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality / Richard Panek.
Publisher, Date:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Description:	xvi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	In exhilarating and behind-the-scenes detail, Panek takes his readers on a tour of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled the search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe. Science journalist Panek (The Invisible Century) offers an insider's view of the quest for what could be the ultimate revelation: the true substance of the unseen dark matter and energy that makes up some 96% of our universe.
Subjects:	Cosmology. Physics. Astrophysics.
Other Title:	Four-percent universe
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-276) and index.
Contents:	More than meets the eye. -- Let there be light -- What's out there -- Choosing halos -- Lo and behold. -- Getting in the game -- Staying in the game -- The game -- The face of the deep. -- The Flat Universe Society -- Hello, Lambda -- The tooth fairy twice -- Less than meets the eye. -- The curse of the Bambino -- The Thing -- Must come down.
LCCN:	2010025838
ISBN:	9780618982448 0618982442 9780547577579 0547577575
Other Number:	505420758
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Control Number:	280861
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Call Number:	523.1126 Panek

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