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Author	Schilling, Govert.
Title	The elephant in the universe : our hundred-year search for dark matter / Govert Schilling ; [with a foreword by Avi Loeb].
Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
	©2022

Location	Call No.	Status
Lobby Non-Fiction		IN LIBRARY

Description	xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index.
Contents	Foreword / by Avi Loeb -- Introduction -- Ear. Matter, but not as we know it ; Underground phantoms ; The pioneers ; The halo effect ; Flattening the curve ; Cosmic cartography ; Big bang baryons ; Radio recollections -- Tusk. Into the cold ; Miraculous WIMPs ; Simulating the universe ; The heretics ; Behind the lens ; MACHO culture ; The runaway universe ; Pie in the sky ; Telltale patterns -- Trunk. The xenon wars ; Catching the wind ; Messengers from outer space ; Delinquent dwarfs ; Cosmological tension ; Elusive ghosts ; Dark crisis ; Seeing the invisible.
Subject	Dark matter (Astronomy) -- History.
	Cosmology -- History.
Added Author	Loeb, Abraham, author of foreword.
Added Title	Our hundred-year search for dark matter
ISBN	9780674248991 (cloth)
	0674248996 (cloth)

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