Issues September 26, 2016 Issue

Looking at the substance of creation

Note: Dr. Lisa Randall is a professor of science at Harvard University. Her latest book joins her two previous New York Times best sellers in examining, for the lay reader, contemporary thinking in the fields of physics and cosmology. Research of what is termed dark matter—invisible matter that fills the universe—has garnered much attention recently, not only in scientific journals, but in the popular media as well.

By Lisa Randall

Dark matter is the elusive stuff in the Universe that interacts through gravity like ordinary matter, but that doesn’t emit or absorb light. Astronomers detect its gravitational influence, but they literally don’t see it ….

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