But the basic gist of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs is easy enough to understand. However, we were relieved to find that, right from the start, Randall dismisses almost all connections between dark matter and the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. Randall conjectures that dark matter may have indirectly led to the extinction of dinosaurs. In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. Lisa Randall's new book 'Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs' explores whether cosmic interactions are responsible for the most famous mass extinction in earth's history. In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe is a 2015 non-fiction book by Harvard astrophysicist Lisa Randall. Particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Randall joins us to discuss her new book "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe." Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall is published in the UK by The Bodley Head, … First, a qualification: I’m not really qualified to write a review of a book that’s largely about the physics of dark matter. Dark matter: we can't see it, but it's believed to make up 85 percent of all matter in the universe and without it we almost certainly wouldn't be here. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs. In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Professor Lisa Randall, one of today’s most influential theoretical physicists, takes readers on an intellectual adventure through the history of the cosmos, showing how events in the farthest reaches of the Universe created the … But Randall and Reece show that a thin disk of dark matter at the center of the Galaxy could do exactly that, causing comet storms with a periodicity of about 35 million years. Harvard professor Lisa Randall (Warped Passages, Knocking on Heaven's Door) is among our most influential theoretical physicists. In her newest book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, acclaimed physicist LISA RANDALL, explores and explains the concept of dark matter and connects it to the history of the universe as well as its contributions to the development and extinction of life. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs.