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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date January 23, 2008
Pages 166
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780199225903
ISBN-10 0199225907
Dimensions 1 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight 0.64 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $19.50
Other format details university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
An eminent scientist takes readers on an accessible odyssey in search of the concept of 'nothing' that journeys from ancient ideas and cultural traditions to the latest scientific research, revealing how scientists have studied the void and discussing the history of the vacuum, theories on the nature of time and space, and other discoveries.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: What is the void? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty Space--nothing--exist?
To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there. Readers will find an enlightening history of the vacuum: how the efforts to make a better vacuum led to the discovery of the electron; the understanding that the vacuum is filled with fields; the ideas of Newton, Mach, and Einstein on the nature of space and time; the mysterious aether and how Einstein did away with it; and the latest ideas that the vacuum is filled with the Higgs field. The story ranges from the absolute zero of temperature and the seething vacuum of virtual particles and anti-particles that fills space, to the extreme heat and energy of the early universe. It compares the ways that substances change from gas to liquid and solid with the way that the vacuum of our universe has changed as the temperature dropped following the Big Bang. It covers modern ideas that there may be more dimensions to the void than those that we currently are aware of and even that our universe is but one in a multiverse.
The Void takes us inside a field of science that may ultimately provide answers to some of cosmology's most fundamental questions: what lies outside the universe, and, if there was once nothing, then how did the universe begin?

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780199225903 Book cover for 9781402775383
 
from Sterling Pub Co Inc (May 4, 2010); titled "The Void: A Brief Insight"
9781402775383 | details & prices | 182 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $14.95
About: What remains when you eliminate all matter?
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from Oxford Univ Pr (January 23, 2008)
9780199225903 | details & prices | 166 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $19.50
About: An eminent scientist takes readers on an accessible odyssey in search of the concept of 'nothing' that journeys from ancient ideas and cultural traditions to the latest scientific research, revealing how scientists have studied the void and discussing the history of the vacuum, theories on the nature of time and space, and other discoveries.

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