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3/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Dark Matter?
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3/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)

https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Universe-Hundred-Year-Search-Matter/dp/0674248996

In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos―some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation.

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0:33.2

This is CBS, I Am the World.

0:35.0

I'm John Batsow with Goverch-Shilly, his wonderful new book, The Elephant and the Universe.

0:39.3

100-year search for dark matter.

0:41.7

It also has travels and his conversations with astronomers and researchers

0:47.3

in deep minds in the beautiful chili high desert of chili.

0:52.8

And also back in time, Goverch-Shilly is going to take us to the big bang

0:57.9

and why it is that that's important to make part of the search for dark matter.

1:03.6

What happened in the first moments?

1:05.2

What is it?

1:06.0

How can we imagine it, Goverch?

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