Dark matter and the dinosaurs
Subtitle: the astounding interconnectedness of the Universe
By: Lisa Randall
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847923066
Subjects: Dark matter (Astronomy); Dinosaurs; Extinction; Big bang theory
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Development of the Universe; title: The Clandestine Dark Matter Society; title: The Discovery of Dark Matter; title: The Big Questions; title: Almost the Very Beginning : A Very Good Place to Start; title: A Galaxy is Born; title: Part II. An Active Solar System. Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites; title: The Short, Glorious Lives of Comets; title: The Edge of the Solar System; title: Living Dangerously; title: Shock and Awe; title: Extinctions; title: The End of the Dinosaurs; title: Life in the Habitable Zone; title: What Goes Around Comes Around; title: Flinging Comets from the Oort Cloud; title: Part III. Deciphering Dark Matter's Identity; title: The Matter of the Invisible World; title: How to See in the Dark; title: Socially Connected Dark Matter; title: The Speed of Dark; title: Searching for the Dark Disk; title: Dark Matter and Comet Strikes; title: Conclusion: Looking Up.