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"The Cosmic Cocktail (Katherine Freese)" Review by Ruth Durrer
CERN Courier, November 2017
This book by Katherine Freese, now out in paperback, is aimed at non-professionals interested in dark matter. The hypothesis that the matter in galaxy clusters is dominated by a non-luminous component, and hence is dark, goes back to a paper published in 1933 by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who also coined the term “dark matter”. But it has only been during the last 20 years or so that we have realised that the matter in the universe is dominated by dark matter and that most of it is non-baryonic, i.e. not made of the stuff that makes up all the other matter we know. |
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"The Cosmic Cocktail (Katherine Freese)" Review by Dr. Stephen P. Maran
Choice, Vol.52, No. 4, December 2014
The Cosmic Cocktail is a sweeping account of recent developments in cosmology and high-energy physics. Katherine Freese, Associate Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, explains how the nature of the universe on the largest scales and at the earliest times depends on the existence of strange subatomic particles. Subjects range from mysterious dark matter that five times outweighs all known matter in the universe to the even less-understood dark energy that seems to accelerate the expansion of space itself, and the Higgs boson that lends elementary particles their mass. Much of the text concerns searches for particles of dark matter, some of them inspired by theories proposed by Freese. This section gives the best account of those experiments and the reasoning that motivates them in the current literature. Cocktail is recommended for bright undergraduates contemplating careers in hard science. Young female readers, especially, may be interested in the description of both the professional and social aspects that such careers entail, from a fine role model. Richard Panek's The 4% Universe (Mariner Books, 2011) is an excellent, much simpler rendition of much of the same content, but slightly outdated. |
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"The Cosmic Cocktail (Katherine Freese)" Review by George Michael
Infinite Energy Magazine, Issue 117, September/October 2014
Infinite Energy is the bi-monthly magazine of the New Energy Foundation It is a technical magazine with outreach to the general public, providing material of interest to all people.
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"The Cosmic Cocktail (Katherine Freese)"
Review by Richard D. Deverell, Library Thing - September 18, 2014
"If you watched Cosmos or Through the Wormhole and want to know about the current research about dark matter and cosmology, look no further because this is the book for you. The book is readable, features cutting-edge science, and is wonderfully witty. In sum, a book that belongs on the shelves of anyone interested in science and how the universe works."
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"What the universe is made of (probably) narrated by a boa wearing physicist"
Washington Post - June 2, 2014
If the cocktail shaker on the cover doesn’t convince you that “The Cosmic Cocktail” might be an unusually entertaining physics book, maybe the lavender feather boa that author Katherine Freese wears for her dust-jacket photo will.
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"Cosmologist’s ‘Cosmic Cocktail’ is a refreshing read"
Science News - August 23, 2014
Katherine Freese explores dark matter and other mysterious parts of the universe. Review by Andrew Grant.
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The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, by Katherine Freese
Times Higher Education - July 10, 2014
Virginia Trimble on the search for the mysterious, magical secret ingredient of the universe.
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"Review: The Cosmic Cocktail"
AstroGuyz - July 4, 2014
It’s the hottest topic in modern astrophysics. What exactly is dark matter and dark energy? It is kind of amazing to think that astrophysicists do not yet completely understand just what most of the universe is made of. And author Katherine Freese is on the forefront of this hunt, as she relates in her new book, The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter out from Princeton Press.
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The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
BBC Sky at Night Magazine - 2014
Review by Nicky Guttridge, a science journalist and Hubble public information officer.
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"Review: The Cosmic Cocktail"
The Space Review - June 2, 2014
Freese suggests in the book that “any time now, the question of the dark matter may be answered” by any one of the wide range of experimental approaches.
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"A straight-talking woman's guide to dark matter"
NewScientist - June 16, 2014
Physicist Katherine Freese drinks deep of her life's adventures and cosmic mysteries alike in her captivatingly frank book The Cosmic Cocktail.
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Blog Posts
#ThanksEinstein: Katherine Freese on how relativity rejuvenated her career. Princeton University Press Blog. 11/21/2015.
Endorsements
"In The Cosmic Cocktail, Professor Katie Freese offers a gripping first-person account of her life as a cosmologist. The recipe? Part memoir, part tutorial, part social commentary. Shaken, not stirred."--Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
"The Cosmic Cocktail provides a complete guide to the dark side--the unknown stuff that makes up most of the universe yet hides its identity so well that scientists don't even know what they're seeking. The search takes us into extra dimensions and black holes, orbiting satellites and South Pole ice, even tracking chambers stuffed with strands of DNA. It's a wild ride, and cosmologist Freese is just the person to guide us. Negotiating a Stockholm stairway in a ball gown and laurel wreath or learning to manage men by cocktail waitressing, she reminds us that interesting women are a key ingredient in the cosmic scientific mix."--K. C. Cole, author ofSomething Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
"Freese tells her trailblazing and very personal story of how the worlds of particle physics and astronomy have come together to unveil the mysterious ingredients of the cosmic cocktail that we call our universe."--Brian Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Australian National University
"As one of the pioneers in the hunt for dark matter, Freese weaves together tales of her own adventures in cosmology with the broader history of this historic quest. Her book elegantly conveys both the underlying science and the excitement of discovery."--David Spergel, Princeton University
"Katherine Freese has long been a major player in the quest to discover dark matter's identity. She tells her story with an insider's perspective--the perspective of the dark matter hunter."--Dan Hooper, author of Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
"I enjoyed reading this book. Its unique blend of personal anecdote and cutting-edge research is entertaining and refreshing. Freese is a very well-known and respected scholar in the field."--Juan I. Collar, University of Chicago
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