The Lure by Bill Napier, Headline, £18.99, ISBN 0747269238
DEEP beneath the Tatra mountains lies a still, pellucid lake, fed by water percolating through the limestone above. To reach it, you take a tiny bouncing lift to ride hundreds of metres down from the surface. Here, surrounded by thousands of sensors, a group of scientists wait for something, anything, to happen. They’re on the trail of “dark matter”, and hope that strange particles sliding through the Earth will register on their instruments and help them to solve the puzzle of the missing mass in the Universe. Or, failing that, to…
