Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our
Universes Missing Mass and Energy
by Dan Hooper
An Excellent Read For The Non-Scientist
Everyone knows that there are things no one can see, for example, the air
youre breathing or a black hole, to be more exotic. But not everyone knows
that what we can see makes up only 5 percent of the Universe. The rest is
totally invisible to us.
The invisible stuff comes in two varieties—dark matter and dark energy.
One holds the Universe together while the other tears it apart. What these
forces really are has been a mystery for as long as anyone has suspected
they were there, but the latest discoveries of experimental physics have
brought us closer to that knowledge. Particle physicist Dan Hooper takes
his readers, with wit, grace, and a keen knack for explaining the toughest
ideas science has to offer, on a quest few would ever have expected: to
discover what makes up our dark cosmos.

Personal Review: Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universes
Missing Mass and Energy by Dan Hooper
This is the best book I've read on Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Not only
does Dr. Hooper explain why these things are needed to explain how we
think our Universe works, but as he writes you get some feeling of the awe
and excitement that he feels about the subject. You get the feeling that he
goes to work every day looking forward with great excitement to see what
he might learn. And he is able to bring this excitement down to the printed
page so that you too feel that we are on the brink of a big break through in
our understanding of how the world works.
As an example. At one point he is making some projections about what
might be discovered in the future.
About one paragraph he says: 'This paragraph is wild speculation.'
About the next paragraph he says: 'This paragraph is ridiculously wild
speculation.
From there he goes on to the third paragraph, about which he says: 'What
is the word that means more ridiculous than ridiculous?'
The only real problem about this book is that next week, or next year, or
maybe 25 years from now there will come a breakthrough that will answer
all of these questions. As Einstein took Newton's equasions and extended
them into the very small and the very large, we are looking for the next
'Einstein' to take his work and extend it to cover what the experimental
physicists and cosmologists are discovering.
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