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The cosmic cocktail : three parts dark matter

Freese, Katherine, author

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Blending cutting-edge science with her own behind-the-scenes insights as a leading researcher in the field, acclaimed theoretical physicist Katherine Freese recounts the hunt for dark matter, from the discoveries of visionary scientists like Fritz Zwicky--the Swiss astronomer who coined the term \"dark matter\" in 1933--to the deluge of data today from underground laboratories, satellites in space, and the Large Hadron Collider. Theorists contend that dark matter consists of fundamental particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. Billions of them pass through our bodies every second without us even realizing it, yet their gravitational pull is capable of whirling stars and gas at breakneck speeds around the centers of galaxies, and bending light from distant bright objects. Freese describes the larger-than-life characters and clashing personalities behind the race to identify these elusive particles.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Dark matter (Astronomy) / Cosmology. / Dunkle Materie. / Kosmologie. / Mèork materia. / Kosmologi.
• ISBN: 9780691153353, 0691153353, 9780691169187, 0691169187

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QB791.3.F75 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE