All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That 'something' is dark matter – invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s we also knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, named dark energy, is pushing it to expand faster and faster. Across the universe, this requires enough energy that the equivalent mass would be nearly fourteen times greater than all the visible material in existence. Brian Clegg explains this major conundrum in modern science and looks at how scientists are beginning to find solutions to it. “'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe” - GILES SPARROW
© 2020 QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781004019274
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 september 2020
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart, but something concealed holds them together. That 'something' is dark matter – invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s we also knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, named dark energy, is pushing it to expand faster and faster. Across the universe, this requires enough energy that the equivalent mass would be nearly fourteen times greater than all the visible material in existence. Brian Clegg explains this major conundrum in modern science and looks at how scientists are beginning to find solutions to it. “'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe” - GILES SPARROW
© 2020 QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781004019274
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 september 2020
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Kuro
29 dec. 2020
Not very well researched. According to the author phycisists knows nothing. I'm surprised he didn't propose creationism and flat earth as alternatives. Wikipedia is way more informative, well written and most importantly more correct.
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