Reviews Cosmology

Edge of the Universe

A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond by Paul Halpern

By Science News

A physicist tackles what is now known about the universe and how scientists are striving to explain concepts such as dark matter, dark energy and wormholes.

 
Wiley, 2012, 236 p., $27.95

A version of this article appears in the December 29, 2012 issue of Science News.

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