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What is gravity? Nobody knows-and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning author Richard Panek shows in this groundbreaking, mind-bending book, gravity is a cold case that's beginning to heat up. In The Trouble with Gravity, Panek in...

A thoughtful meditation on the mythic, cultural, philosophical and, yes, scientific implications of what happens when a wet potato or a crystal vase slips from your hand."-Billy Collins A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows-and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized out...

An exciting look at the next big thing in cosmology--the search for dark matter and dark energy--and the making of an entirely new physics.

Meet the players in the most fundamental scientific revolution since Copernicus

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A handful of scientists have been racing to explain the fact that only four percent of the universe consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our things, and every star and planet. The rest is unknown. Here, Richard Panek brings this mystery to life.

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Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of the quest to find this dark matter and an even more bizarre substance called dark energy. This is perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science. Bas...