The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter

by Katherine Freese

Book Overview

The inside story of the epic quest to solve the mystery of dark matter

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is the inside story of the epic quest to solve one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169187
• ISBN13: 9780691169187
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"