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| View Larger Image | Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
by Dan Hooper
| | List Price: | $24.95 |  | | 5 New starting at: | $7.99 | | 7 Used starting at: | $7.60 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 826469 | | Studio: | Collins | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | December 01, 2006 | | Publisher: | Collins |
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A good primer on a timely topic 
Written for anyone wanting to know what the hot topic in cosmology is all about. A good place to start.
April 03, 2008 | |
An excellent read for the non-scientist
Dark Cosmos has an excellent narrative style and explains the concepts of dark matter in a very understandable fashion. It begins with the easier theories and then moves into string theory and other pretty advanced concepts. It's a great read even if there comes a point where it no longer makes sense to a non-physicist.
February 21, 2007 | |
A Simplified View of the Way we Understand the World
This is the best book I've read on Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Not only does Dr. Hooper explain why these things are needed to explain how we think our Universe works, but as he writes you get some feeling of the awe and excitement that he feels about the subject. You get the feeling that he goes to work every day looking forward with great excitement to see what he might learn. And he is able to bring this excitement down to the printed page so that you too feel that we are on the brink of a big break through in our understanding of how the world works.
As an example. At one point he is making some projections about what might be discovered in the future.
About one paragraph he says: 'This paragraph is wild speculation.'
About the next paragraph he says: 'This paragraph is ridiculously wild speculation.
From there he goes on to the third paragraph, about which he says: 'What is the word that means more ridiculous than ridiculous?'
The only real problem about this book is that next week, or next year, or maybe 25 years from now there will come a breakthrough that will answer all of these questions. As Einstein took Newton's equasions and extended them into the very small and the very large, we are looking for the next 'Einstein' to take his work and extend it to cover what the experimental physicists and cosmologists are discovering.
February 05, 2007 | |
very well written 
I am not a scientist. I have no training in modern cosmology or physics, and I read this book simply out of an interest in the subject. What struck me most, and what I least expected from a popular science book, was the prose. The subject itself is vastly intriguing, and Dr. Hooper does an excellent job of conveying this information. The only chapter that left me relatively baffled was the chapter on quantum physics, but (let's be honest) that's strange stuff and it is not the intent of this book to explain it. The thrust of this book is dark matter, and Dr. Hooper is an engaging and insightful authority. His book is full of information, but more importantly, it is a pleasure to read.
January 26, 2007 | |
really dark
This book is introduction to cosmology for general reader rather than detailed information about dark matter and dark energy.
I like popular physics books. I have bought the book to learn about dark matter and dark energy, but after reading I have become more cloudy. These concepts are still in their infancy. Untested theories (supersymmetry , string and inflation) give support these undetected dark matter and inexplicable quantity of dark energy.
The author tells all of intriguing related topics to give some idea of the subject. I got much out of the theories of supersymmetry, inflation and the life cycles of stars.
January 20, 2007 | |
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