Richard Panek\u2019s study of the cosmos,\u201dThe 4 Percent Universe\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\nMaybe it\u2019s God.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a review of Richard Panek\u2019s The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Richard Panek: The latest surveys of the universe indicate that only 4 percent of it is made of ordinary matter. Nearly 23 percent is made up of dark matter, which some physicists suspect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,40],"tags":[628],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-science","tag-dark-energy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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