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The title of this book caught my attention because so-called Dark Matter is an important and puzzling issue in modern astronomy. In brief, the stars we see have insufficient mass to account for the gravity of galaxies and galactic clusters. The missing mass must reside in non-luminous, i.e. Dark Matter. This book starts out promisingly enough. Ken Freeman and Geoff McNamara do a good job of framing the question and explaining how astronomers found a discrepancy between the amount of visible matter and the observable gravitational effects. After the first few chapters the book loses its way. It becomes more of a survey of the ideas on the subject rather than an effort to choose between them and present a coherent point of view. It is clear that ordinary matter in the form of protons, neutrons, electrons, etc is not present in sufficient quantities to explain the gravitational effects. Something else with a specific distribution that can be inferred from astronomic observations must account for the remaining gravitational effects. This leads to somewhat vague discussions of the possible mass of neutrinos, black holes (massive and small) and of exotic particles like WIMPS (weakly int

Who reads In Search of Dark Matter (Springer Praxis Books?

Author

Ken Freeman, Geoff McNamara

Publisher

Springer; Published in association with Praxis Pub.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387276168

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Astronomy

Updated

2026-03-24