IS DARK MATTER FROM BEFORE THE BIG BANG? 7/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a64379333/dark-matter-older-than-universe/
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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| 0:48.1 | I'm John Dutch with Govert Schilling, a wonderful storyteller about the search for something we're not going to find. |
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| 1:12.6 | searching for. And we come now to the cosmic microwave background and what that tells us |
| 1:19.2 | about dark matter and about dark energy and how we need it. The cosmic microwave background, |
| 1:24.8 | as everybody knows, is something that was found in the late 20th century |
| 1:29.2 | by looking at the sky and saying, what is this buzz, like radio fuzz in the backgrounds? |
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