The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter — Seeing the Unseen
How can science become increasingly confident about something no one has ever directly seen?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling as our lens, this episode investigates the century-long effort to identify the invisible substance that appears to shape galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the large-scale structure of the cosmos.
Schilling follows astronomers, cosmologists, particle physicists, theorists, and experimental researchers as they confront different…
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