Screen LibraryNothing：a very short introduction
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Very short introductions |
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| Item Description: | Void. |
| Carrier Form: | 157 p.: ill., maps ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199225866 (pbk.) 0199225869 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | O4 |
| CLC: | O4-052 |
| Call Number: | O4-02/C645 |
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"First pub. in hardback as The Void 2007. First pub. as a Very Short Introduction 2009."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and index. Much ado about nothing -- How empty is an atom? -- Space -- Waves in what? -- Travelling on a light beam -- The cost of free space -- The infinite sea -- The Higgs vacuum -- The new void. What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This text explores the science & history of the elusive void - from Aristotle's theories to black holes & quantum particles, & why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. |