Selected as a Book of the Year by Mail on Sunday and Financial Times 66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed and destroyed the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. Where did it come from, and why? And how is this connected to dark matter – the most mysterious, elusive stuff in t...(展开全部)

In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Professor Lisa Randall, one of today’s most influential theoretical physicists, takes readers on an intellectual adventure through the history of the cosmos, showing how events in the farthest reaches of the Universe created the conditions for life—and death—on our planet. Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city crashed into E...(展开全部)

丽莎·兰道尔 国际理论物理学权威，粒子物理学、弦理论、宇宙学专家。当今全球最权威的额外维度物理学家。挑战爱因斯坦，9年实验首度提出第五维空间，震惊全球物理界。 普林斯顿大学物理系第一位女性终身教授，哈佛大学、麻省理工学院第一位女性理论物理学终身教授。 《时代周刊》“100位最具影响力人物”之一，《纽约时报》超级畅销书作家，并登上《时尚》杂志封面。

理查德·潘内克，以前的作品包括《眼见为实》、《看不见的世纪》。作为古根海姆基金科学写作奖的获得者，他曾为《纽约时报》、《探索杂志》、《史密森尼杂志》、《时尚先生杂志》、《自然史杂志》和许多其他出版物撰写过有关天文学和宇宙学的文章。他与妻子和两个儿子生活在纽约。石云里，中国科学技术大学科学史博士，美国哈佛大学和MIT博士后。上海交通大学科学史与科学文化研究院特聘教授，博士生导师，中国天文学会天文学史专业委员会副主任，中国科学史学会理事，教育部高等学校历史学类专业教学指导委员会委员，国际东亚科学史学会副主席，国际天文学联合会历史仪器工作组主席，国际天文学联合会天文学与世界遗产工作组成员．英国Annal s of Science和德国East Asian Science，Technology ana Medicine等期刊编委。教育部精品视频公开课《科学简...(展开全部)

理查德·潘内克，以前的作品包括《眼见为实》、《看不见的世纪》。作为古根海姆基金科学写作奖的获得者，他曾为《纽约时报》、《探索杂志》、《史密森尼杂志》、《时尚先生杂志》、《自然史杂志》和许多其他出版物撰写过有关天文学和宇宙学的文章。他与妻子和两个儿子生活在纽约。石云里，中国科学技术大学科学史博士，美国哈佛大学和MIT博士后。上海交通大学科学史与科学文化研究院特聘教授，博士生导师，中国天文学会天文学史专业委员会副主任，中国科学史学会理事，教育部高等学校历史学类专业教学指导委员会委员，国际东亚科学史学会副主席，国际天文学联合会历史仪器工作组主席，国际天文学联合会天文学与世界遗产工作组成员．英国Annal s of Science和德国East Asian Science，Technology ana Medicine等期刊编委。教育部精品视频公开课《科学简...(展开全部)

The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every planet, star, and galaxy. The rest—96 percent of the universe—is completely un...(展开全部)

Only 4% of the universe consists of the matter that makes up you, me, every star, every and planet. Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been battling to understand the rest: the strange "dark matter" and even stranger "dark energy". In exhilarating detail, Panek takes us on an intimate tour of the epic rivalries, the eureka moments, the blind alleys, and the...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realm...(展开全部)

Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realm...(展开全部)