Quintessence
Subtitle: the mystery of missing mass in the universe
By: Lawrence Krauss.
Contributors: Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Dark matter (Astronomy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: The fifth essence. c1989.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface to the Revised Edition; title: XVII; title: Preface / A New Copernican Revolution?; title: XXI; title: PART I THE STUFF OF MATTER; title: CHAPTER I / Making Something Out of Nothing; title: 3; title: CHAPTER 2 / Filling the Void; title: 23; title: PART II WEIGHING THE UNIVERSEAND COMING UP SHORT; title: CHAPTER 3 / First Light on the Darkness; title: 45; title: CHAPTER 4 / Beyond Our Island in the Night; title: 71; title: PART III WHY THE UNIVERSE IS FLAT: THE BIG BANG, LARGE-SCALE; title: STRUCTURE, AND THE NEED FOR SOMETHING NEW; title: CHAPTER 5 / Cooking with Gas; title: II3; title: CHAPTER 6 / The Tip of the Iceberg; title: I38; title: PART IV THE NEUTRINO SAGA AND THE BIRTH OF COLD DARK MATTER; title: CHAPTER 7 / The Obvious Choice?; title: 171; title: CHAPTER 8 / Cold Gets Hot; title: I97; title: CHAPTER 9 / Cold, Colder, Coldest:; title: The New Improved Standard Model; title: 222; title: PART V THE CANDIDATES; title: CHAPTER IO / All Roads Lead to Dark Matter; title: 233; title: CHAPTER 11 / Three Modest Proposals; title: 266; title: PART VI DESPERATELY SEEKING DARK MATTER; title: CHAPTER 12 / The Music of the Spheres?; title: 285; title: CHAPTER 13 / Of Thermometers and Radios; title: 301; title: CHAPTER 14 / Searching for Nothing?; title: 332; title: Epilogue / The Best of Times?; title: 337; title: Appendix A / Orders of Magnitude and the Scale of the Universe; title: 339; title: Appendix B / A Really Brief History of Time; title: 342; title: Notes; title: 346; title: Index; title: 348.