Shadowlands by Robert Foot, Universal Publishers, $25.95, ISBN 158112645X Reviewed by Marcus Chown
GALAXIES, stars and planets are all very well, but most of the matter in the Universe is entirely invisible. There are dozens of candidates for this dark matter, but one has recently elbowed its way to the front. It’s called “mirror matter”, and its chief proponent, Australian physicist Robert Foot, sets out the case in highly entertaining style in Shadowlands.
Nature, for reasons nobody understands, has chosen fundamental laws that exhibit the maximum possible symmetry. The laws of physics are the same today as yesterday, the same…
