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A cracking read, combining storytelling of the highest order with a trove of information on subjects as diverse as astrophysics, evolutionary biology, geology and particle physics. Dark matter and the dinosaurs lisa randall audiobook. It was really nice for me to be able to communicate about dark matter through its potential connections to what we see today. Four other us physicists to watch facebook twitter. Dark matter and the dinosaurs is a fascinating, mindexpanding experience. But the universe is by definition a single entity and in principle its components interact. Buy a cheap copy of dark matter and the dinosaurs book by lisa randall. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs. In dark matter and the dinosaurs, lisa randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the solar system passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the milky way.
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