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The Cosmic Cocktail : Three Parts 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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Science Essentials ;
21 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- One. The Golden Era of Particle Cosmology, or How I Joined the Chicago Mafia
- Two. How Do Cosmologists Know Dark Matter Exists? The Beginning of the Dark Matter Story
- Three. The Big Picture of the Universe: Einstein and the Big Bang
- Four. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Proves That Atomic Matter Constitutes Only 5% of the Universe
- Five. What Is Dark Matter?
- Six. The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- Seven. The Experimental Hunt for Dark Matter Particles
- Eight. Claims of Detection: Are They Real?
- Nine. Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe
- Afterword: Dark Stars
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index