The disordered cosmos a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred
"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinst...
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New York, NY :
Bold Type Books,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- In the beginning: a bedtime story
- Phase 1: Just physics. I [heart] quarks ; Dark matter isn't dark ; Spacetime isn't straight ; The biggest picture there is
- Phase 2: Physics and the chosen few. The physics of melanin ; Black people are luminous matter ; Who is a scientist?
- Phase 3: The trouble with physicists. Let astro/physics be the dream it used to be ; The anti-patriarchy agender ; Wages for scientific housework ; Rape is part of this scientific story
- Phase 4: All our galactic relations. The point of science: lessons from the mauna ; Cosmological dreams under totalitarianism ; Black feminist physics at the end of the world
- Dear mama, this is what my freedom dream looks like.
