The Fifth Essence: The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe

by Lawrence M. Krauss

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A Yale physicist tells the story of dark matter, its discovery, its importance to our understanding of the universe, and of the experiments that are presently being carried out around the world to determine what this mysterious missing mass is and what its future will be.

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A Yale physicist tells the story of dark matter, its discovery, its importance to our understanding of the universe, and of the experiments that are presently being carried out around the world to determine what this mysterious missing mass is and what its future will be.

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