By Dr. R Sudarshan
In the dark new moon night of a cloud-free sky, look up and watch all that you can through the naked eyes or through a far peering telescope. All the luminous spots you see of stars, galaxies, planets, and nebulae just form some 15 percent of the universe. The rest of 85 percent is what's unknown, called dark matter.
Govert Schilling explains all the theories and simulations that try to explain dark matter. He reels through the pages, how the best instruments, satellites, and computers have crunched truck loads of data to find no definitive clarity. The enigma of dark matter is such that there are doubts if even the fundamental theories of gravity that we believe in, are correct.
A simple, lucid, and story-like narration of the deep science of dark matter written out on white paper. Yes, we still know nothing of our universe, our origin, and our suspension in the unending space of reality. We don't know about the elephant in the room... I mean the universe.
On the shelf, is a brilliant explanation of how much we don't know. There's a shining mirror that shows the brilliance of our ignorance.
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