Amazing discoveries tend to follow a satellite launch or telescope's first light. Physicists have traced galaxies across most of the visible Universe and have seen the top quark. Yet they lie awake at night worrying that they don't know what makes up 96% of the Universe, what dark energy is or why anything has mass.rnThis gap between theory and observation concerns science writer Anil Ananthaswamy. In The Edge of Physics, he travels the planet to see for himself the experiments that are challenging our view of nature. Along the way he meets the researchers who suffer for their science in bleak locations: from macho Siberians who sleep on the heaving ice of Lake Baikal to catch neutrinos, to technicians who work every day deep in a Minnesotan mine to detect dark matter. Ananthaswamy seeks to capture the peculiar motivations that draw people to these remote sites of discovery.
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