The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe

by David N. Schramm and Michael Riordan

Book Overview

More than 90 percent of the Universe is unseen, unknown. Ordinary telescopes cannot detect it - nor can radio antennas. Yet there is convincing evidence that it exists - as something called "dark... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716721570
• ISBN13: 9780716721574
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Some light over the darkness

You'll be hooked by this book just like if you were reading a romance! Only with a few knowledge on physics, you will enjoy the reading from the Stephen Hawking's foreward to the last pages. The autors lead us through the search for the missing (or invisible) part of the Universe. The origin and the fate of the Universe in 11 parts!