Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
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Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

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If scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most complex phenomena in the cosmos and an a...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published November 1st 2008 by University of Chicago Press (first published October 28th 2006)
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