The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality in Science and Inquiry

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The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

Richard Panek

Start date: May 1, 2012

Finish date: May 31, 2012

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May 30, 2012 aPriL does feral sometimes rated it really liked it

Shelves: science, non-fiction

The '4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality' by Richard Panek is a very readable history of the discovery of dark matter and dark energy, including brief biographies of the scientists involved. Particularly, it illuminates how the pressures of being a human being afflict those who are gifted intellectually and pursue astronomy and physics just as much as us more ordinary types who can't balance our checkbooks and can only recognize the Great Dipper co ...more

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Mar 10, 2013 Sheldon rated it liked it

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Pretty good but not quite what i was expecting in the book... I probably should have read the title and description more closely. What it is though is a good story of the people involved in the "dark" research. It's good to understand the people, processes and other considerations that the scientists and researchers deal with as they make their discovers and develop their theories.

I'd probably give it 3.5 stars if I could do halves... ...more

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