Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

Lisa Randall

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Ecco Press
18 October 2016

Mathematics & Sciences; Astrophysics; Geology & the lithosphere; Palaeontology

"""A cracking read, combining storytelling of the highest order with a trove of information. . . . What's remarkable is that it all fits together.""--Wall Street Journal

""Successful science writing tells a complete story of the 'how'--the methodical marvel building up to the 'why'--and Randall does just that.""--New York Times Book Review

""[Randall] is a lucid explainer, street-wise and informal. Without jargon or mathematics, she steers us through centuries of sometimes tortuous astronomical history.""--The Guardian

In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Professor Lisa Randall, one of today's most influential theoretical physicists, takes readers on an intellectual adventure through the history of the cosmos, showing how events in the farthest reaches of the Universe created the conditions for life--and death--on our planet.

Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city crashed into Earth, killing off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the planet's species. Challenging the usual assumptions about the simple makeup of the unseen material that constitutes 85% of the matter in the Universe, Randall explains how a disk of dark matter in the Milky Way plane might have triggered the cataclysm.

But Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs does more than present a radical idea. With clarity and wit, it explains the nature of the Universe, dark matter, the Milky Way galaxy, comets, asteroids, and impacts. This breathtaking synthesis, illuminated by pop culture references and social and political viewpoints, reveals the deep relationships among the small and the large, the visible and the hidden, as well as the astonishing beauty of the connections that surround us. It's impossible to read this book and look at either the Earth or the sky again in the same way."

By: Lisa Randall
Imprint: Ecco Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780062328502
ISBN 10: 0062328506
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 18 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

The nature of the impactor remains unknown, but if it was indeed a comet dislodged from the Oort Cloud, then Randall's book provides an entertaining and radical explanation of the events leading up to their ultimate extinction. --Walter Kirn, author of Blood Will Out and Up In the Air