Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck and daughter of Jupiter, seems to have smiled agreeably on American journalist and writer Richard Panek concerning the subject matter of his book, The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. How often does an author choose a cosmological topic to research, write on, and then publish, following which three key players in the narrative are named co-recipients of a Nobel Prize in Physics for the work the story tells? Panek certainly has a nose for a good yarn, and could not have asked for better timing of the book's publication, given that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in October 2011, after his book's appearance earlier that year.
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