Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

by Lisa Randall

In some global sense, we are all descendents of Chicxulub. It’s a part of our history that we should want to understand. If true, the additional wrinkle presented in this book would mean that not only was dark matter responsible for irrevocably changing our world, but also that some of it played a crucial role in allowing for our existence. In this scenario, from the dinosaurs’ perspective, dark matter was evil after all and the name scientists gave it was apt. But from a human perspective, this newly proposed type of dark matter was the instigator of one of the central accidents that changed the course of the Earth’s development to the point where you could be sitting here reading this book.