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The void / Frank Close.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Close, F. E., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Nothing (Philosophy).
- Physics--Philosophy--History.
- Cosmology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03598-9
- 0-19-160771-1
- 1-281-14989-6
- 9786611149895
- 0-19-152754-8
- OCLC:
- 476246221
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