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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: disordered cosmos
    sub title: a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred
  name:
    name part: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter, all with a new spin and rhythm informed by pop culture, hip hop, politics and Star Trek. Prescod-Weinstein's vision of the cosmos is vibrant, inclusive and buoyantly non-traditional. As she makes clear, what we know about the universe won't be complete until we learn to think beyond the limitations of white-dominated science. Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism and shortsightedness as a result. But as Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear, we all have a right to know the night sky. By welcoming the insights of those who have been left out for too long, we expand our understanding of the universe and our place in it. The Disordered Cosmos is a vision for a world without prejudice that allows everyone to view the wonders of the universe through the same starry eyes.
  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.
  note: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Particles (Nuclear physics)
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Feminist theory
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Astronomy
  classification: QB461.5 .P735 2021
  classification: 523.01
  classification: 539.721
  identifier: 9781541724709
  identifier: 1541724704
  identifier: 9781541724693
  identifier: 2020040651
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200914
    record change date: 20220627131407.0
    record identifier: in00004579726