Full name: Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

Author: Evalyn Gates Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon OpenLibrary LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393062380 9780393338010 0393062384 0393338010

Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their unexpected appearance in the cosmic census is upending long-held notions about the nature of the Universe. Astronomers have long known that the Universe is expanding, but everything they could see indicated that gravity should be slowing this spread. Instead, it appears that the Universe is accelerating its expansion and that something stronger than gravity--dark energy--is at work. In Evalyn Gates, a University of Chicago astrophysicist, transports us to the edge of contemporary science to explore the revolutionary tool that unlocks the secrets of these little-understood cosmic constituents. Based on Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational lensing, or "Einstein's Telescope," is enabling new discoveries that are taking us toward the next revolution in scientific thinking--one that may change forever our notions of where the Universe came from and where it is going. Similar books: The 4 Percent Universe by Richard Panek Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall Welcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Universe in Your Hand by Christophe Galfard Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson Alpha and Omega by Charles Seife The Book of Universes by John D. Barrow A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss The Extravagant Universe by Robert P. Kirshner Before the Beginning by Martin Rees The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson