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What Is Dark Matter?
Peter Fisher
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Description for What Is Dark Matter?
Hardback. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 115. Weight in Grams: 666.
What we know about dark matter and what we have yet to discover
Astronomical observations have confirmed dark matter’s existence, but what exactly is dark matter? In What Is Dark Matter?, particle physicist Peter Fisher introduces readers to one of the most intriguing frontiers of physics. We cannot actually see dark matter, a mysterious, nonluminous form of matter that is believed to account for about 27 percent of the mass-energy balance in the universe. But we know dark matter is present by observing its ghostly gravitational effects on the behavior and evolution of galaxies. Fisher brings readers quickly up ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148342
SKU
V9780691148342
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99-43
About Peter Fisher
Peter Fisher is the Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics and serves as head of the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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