Dark Matter Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been racing to
explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it
consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every
planet, star, and galaxy. The rest - 96 percent of the universe -
is completely unknown.

Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scientists reached this
cosmos-shattering conclusion, and what they.re doing to find this "dark"
matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. This is
perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will
bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize. Based on in-depth,
on-site reporting and hundreds of interviews - with everyone from
Berkeley.s feisty Saul Perlmutter and Johns Hopkins.s meticulous Adam
Riess to the quietly revolutionary Vera Rubin - the book offers an
intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations,
the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled their search,
redefined science, and reinvented the universe.

The stakes couldn.t be higher. Our view of the cosmos is profoundly
wrong, and Copernicus was only the beginning: not just Earth, but all
common matter is a marginal part of existence. Panek.s fast-paced
narrative, filled with behind-the-scenes details, brings this epic
story to life for the very first time.

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