Missing

• Autores: Liz Kruesi
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3085, 2016, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People had it in their sight just a moment ago, then they turn their back for a second and it's nowhere to be seen. It's bad enough with car keys or the remote control. Just imagine if they'd lost half the universe. Yet that's exactly where cosmologists find themselves. The problem lies not with dark matter or dark energy, those mysterious substances that measurements tell make up most of the cosmic mix. This is about normal, visible matter. The best estimates say it makes up only about 5% of all the stuff out there. Yet people are hard pressed to find even half that. Here, Kruesi unmasks the monstrous culprit on how billions of years ago, half the universe's visible matter disappeared.