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The Dark Side of the Universe: A Scientist Explores the Mysteries of the Cosmos
by James Trefil
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Scribners (1988-08-11)
ISBN: 0684187957
EAN: 9780684187952
Dewey Decimal #: 523.101
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 197 pages
Edition: 1ST
SKU: 20112
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book pages clean and crisp with no markings.
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Product Description
Award-winning writer and physicist James Trefil takes the reader on a tantalizing journey to the outer reaches of the universe and examines one of astronomy's most recent discoveries--that the nighttime sky seen by the human eye represents little more than a minor portion of the universe.
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Customer Reviews
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1st book I've read to deal with how dark matter would taste
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-06-13
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
James Trefil has conjured up an excellent exordium to current cosmology and its puzzles in "The Dark Side of the Universe." Due to its simple and easy to understand nature, it is an excellent starting point for the lay cosmologist. For such a person, the Massive Neutrino Caper chapter is the only segment that is a bit of heavier science... in my own opinion at least. Each chapter starts out with a personal attention grabber to help you grasp on to the concept that he is about to connect to from the previous chapter. The book is predominantly about the paradox of galaxies (clusters and voids), dark matter and it candidates, and the Big Bang cosmogony, and also the perspective of our (humanity's) study of the cosmos from the primitive ancients to the scientific present age. He makes our eldritch and mysterious kosmos easier to understand in plain English better than many authors whom I have encountered. This here is a bona fide stepping stone into astronomy and cosmology!
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