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

richard-panek

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize. Based on in-depth reporting and interviews with the major players -- from Berkeley's feisty, excitable Saul Perlmutter and Harvard's witty but exacting Robert Kirshner -- to the doyenne of astronomy, Vera Rubin -- the book offers an intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled their search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe. The stakes couldn't be higher. Our view of the cosmos is profoundly wrong, and Copernicus was only the beginning: not just Earth, but all common matter is a marginal part of existence. Panek's fast-paced narrative, filled with original reporting and behind-the-scenes details, brings this epic story to life for the very first time.

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Blackstone Audiobooks

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, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize. Based on in-depth reporting and interviews with the major players -- from Berkeley's feisty, excitable Saul Perlmutter and Harvard's witty but exacting Robert Kirshner -- to the doyenne of astronomy, Vera Rubin -- the book offers an intimate portrait of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fueled their search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe. The stakes couldn't be higher. Our view of the cosmos is profoundly wrong, and Copernicus was only the beginning: not just Earth, but all common matter is a marginal part of existence. Panek's fast-paced narrative, filled with original reporting and behind-the-scenes details, brings this epic story to life for the very first time.

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

"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 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 book, gravity is a cold case that we are closer to cracking than ever - and whose very investigation has yielded untold truths about the cosmos and humanity itself. Part scientific detective story, part meta-physical romp, The Trouble with Gravity is a revelation: the first in-depth, accessible study of this ubiquitous, elusive force. Gravity and our efforts to understand it, Panek reveals, have shaped not only the world we inhabit, but also our bodies, minds, and culture. Its influence can be seen in everything from ancient fables to modern furniture, Dante's Inferno to the pratfalls of Laurel and Hardy, bipedalism to black holes. As we approach the truth about gravity, we should also be prepared to know both our universe and our-selves as never before.

Trouble with Gravity, The

History & Philosophy

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

From the acclaimed author of 'Seeing and Believing'. In clear and vivid prose, Richard Panek examines two of history's greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud, to offer a fresh portrait of the extraordinary scientific developments of the 20th-century. At the dawn of the 20th-century there was a widespread assumption in scientific circles that the pursuit of knowledge was nearing its end and that all available evidence had been exhausted. By 1916, however, both Einstein and Freud had exploded this myth by leading exploration into the science of the Invisible and Unconscious, using scientific data that we cannot see. These men were more than just contemporaries -- their separate pursuits were in fact complementary. Freud's science of Psychoanalysis found its cosmological counterpart in the Astronomy of Invisible Light that Einstein pioneered. Together they questioned the inconsistencies of Newton's ordered cosmos to reveal a different reality, a natural order that was anything but ordered, a cosmos that was volatile and vast -- an organism alive in time. Einstein and Freud inspired a fundamental shift in the history of human thought, transforming forever our understanding of the world and our place within it. In accessible and stylish prose, Panek chronicles a scientific revolution that is still in progress today.

The Invisible Century : Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

Fourth Estate

A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary work of two of the centurys greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud.At the turn of the century there was a widespread assumption in scientific circles that the pursuit of knowledge was nearing its end and that all available evidence had been exhausted. However, by 1916 both Einstein and Freud had exploded the myth by leading exploration into the science of the invisible and the unconscious. These men were more than just contemporaries their separate pursuits were in fact complementary. Freuds science of psychoanalysis found its cosmological counterpart in the Astronomy of Invisible Light pioneered by Einstein. Together they questioned the little inconsistencies of Newtons ordered cosmos to reveal a different reality, a natural order that was anything but ordered, a cosmos that was volatile and vast an organism alive in time. These men inspired a fundamental shift in the history of human thought. They began a revolution that is still in progress and provided one of the past centurys greatest contributions to the history of science.

The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

Harperperennial

A wonderful book about telescopes, their history and how they changed our universe.

Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe

History

SEEING AND BELIEVING

Fourth Estate, Limited

Das 4%-Universum: Dunkle Energie, dunkle Materie und die Geburt einer neuen Physik

Hanser München

Conheça a vanguarda da ciência sobre o autismo Ao mesclar novas e surpreendentes descobertas com a sua própria experiência como autista, Temple Grandin evidencia os avanços científicos neste campo, compartilha conosco suas ressonâncias cerebrais para mostrar quais anomalias podem explicar os sintomas mais simples e, de forma animadora, argumenta que a educação de crianças autistas não deve centrar-se apenas em suas fraquezas, o que multiplica as formas de aproveitar suas contribuições únicas. Dos “Aspies” do Vale do Silício até uma criança não verbal, Grandin compreende o real significado da palavra “espectro”, o que faz deste livro uma leitura essencial sobre o assunto. Temple Grandin é autista e revolucionou as práticas de tratamento de animais em fazendas e abatedouros. Ph.D. em zootecnia, é professora de ciência animal na Colorado State University e autora de best-sellers que já somaram mais de 1 milhão de exemplares vendidos. O filme da HBO Temple Grandin recebeu sete Emmys, incluindo os de melhor filme para televisão e de melhor atriz para Claire Danes, que também ganhou o Globo de Ouro ao interpretar Grandin. Richard Panek é jornalista e escritor premiado, autor de The 4 Percent Universe e ganhador de um prêmio de reconhecimento na área de escrita científica pela John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, tendo sido traduzido para mais de quinze idiomas.

O Cérebro Autista

Temple Grandin

Record

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

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

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

Trouble with Gravity, The

The Invisible Century : Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe

SEEING AND BELIEVING

Das 4%-Universum: Dunkle Energie, dunkle Materie und die Geburt einer neuen Physik

O Cérebro Autista