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Quintessence : the mystery of missing mass in the universe
Item details
- ISBN: 0465037402
- ISBN: 9780465037407
- ISBN: 0465037410
- ISBN: 9780465037414
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xxvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2000]
- Copyright: ©2000
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Revised edition of: The fifth essence. c1989. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A new Copernican revolution? -- Making something out of nothing -- Filling the void -- First light on the darkness -- Beyond our island in the night -- Cooking with gas -- The tip of the iceberg -- The obvious choice? -- Cold gets hot -- Cold, colder, coldest: the new improved standard model -- All roads lead to dark matter -- Three modest proposals -- The music of the spheres? -- Of thermometers and radios -- Searching for nothing? -- Epilogue: The best of times? -- Appendix A: Orders of magnitude and the scale of the universe -- Appendix B: A really brief history of time. |
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| Subject: | Dark matter (Astronomy) Matière sombre (Astronomie) Dark matter (Astronomy) Cosmologia Dunkle Materie |
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| Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library: Columbia County Library |
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