About the Book: The Elephant in the Universe
An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand
dark matter—and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe
we inhabit. When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous
galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it
constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the universe. Despite decades of
research, the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We call it dark
matter. In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the
fascinating history of the search for dark matter.