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Void: the strange physics of nothing

By James Owen , Weatherall

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780300209983, 9780300224498, 0300209983, 9780300230734, 0300230737
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
585 kB (599315 bytes)
Series
Foundational questions in science
Pages
196 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Cosmology;Nothing (Philosophy);Physics--Philosophy

Description

The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physicsJames Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In his newest volume, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff—protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons—is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space as nothingness extended in all directions, a kind of theater in which physics could unfold. But both quantum theory and relativity tell us that Newton's picture can't be right. Nothing, it turns out, is an awful lot like something, with a structure and properties every bit as complex and mysterious as matter. In his signature lively...

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