The 4 Percent Universe
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
by Richard Panek
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appears in Physics, Science, and Nonfiction.
The epic, behindthescenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. The rest?96 percent o...
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