Fudge factors in the physics of the universe

摘要

IS THE Big Bang a big bust? How, for instance, can the universe be full of stars far older than itself? How could space once have expanded faster than the speed of light? How can most of the matter in the universe be "missing"? And what kind of weird matter could possibly account for 90% of the universe's total mass? These stranger-than-fiction riddles of science are offered as the dust-jacket teasers of Donald Goldsmith's new book on modern cosmology.