TY - BOOK AU - Panek,Richard TI - The 4% universe: dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality SN - 9781851688210 (pbk) U1 - 523.1126 PY - 2011/// CY - Richmond PB - Oneworld KW - Dark matter (Astronomy) KW - Dark energy (Astronomy) N1 - Prologue -- Part one: More than meets the eye (1. Let there be light ; 2. What's out there ; 3. Choosing halos) -- Part two: Lo and behold (4. Getting in the game ; 5. Staying in the game ; 6. The game) -- Part three: The face of the deep (7. The Flat Universe Society ; 8. Hello, lambda ; 9. The tooth fairy twice) -- Part four: Less than meets the eye (10. The curse of the bambino ; 11. The thing ; 12. Must come down) -- Epilogue. N2 - "Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our [Universe]: only 4% of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest of the [Universe] is completely unknown. ... Panek tells the ... story of the quest to unlock the secrets of "dark matter" and the even stranger substance known as "dark energy", which comprise a startling 96% of existence. These are perhaps the greatest mysteries remaining in science, and solving them will reshape our understanding of the [Universe] and our place in it. ..."--Back cover ER -