To be honest, this was a bit of a letdown. The title is a little misleading as it is more about "the race" and the history that sets up the race than anything else. The book is 240 pp and doesn't really even begin hinting at dark matter/dark energy until the 150s/60s, and it is really more about ...
I love reading physics materials, and this one was pretty good. I get less interested during the political intrigue where this scientist is mad at that one and so on, but it's part of the history and is worth both the telling and the hearing. Mr. Panek does a very good job of balancing the scienc...