Jason Furman's Reviews > Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy

Dark Cosmos by Dan Hooper
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bookshelves: nonfiction, science, physics

This is a very good book for somebody, just not for me. It is well written and Hooper conveys enthusiasm. But I was hoping for an up-to-date book that focused exclusively on dark matter and dark energy. Instead most of this book is devoted to necessarily superficial pop science review of general relativity, quantum mechanics, supersymmetry, string theory, and cosmology. As a result there wasn't much that was new to me. Although I did learn one interesting new fact: Ladbrokes was taking bets on the discovery of the Higgs Boson by 2010, putting the odds at six-to-one. If only there was an Intrade market.
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August 16, 2011 – Shelved

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