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EBOOK Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191574641
EAN: C29535F1EB
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Stron: 176
Data wydania: 2009
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What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space        - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history        of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via        the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can        tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.Frank Close tells the story of how        scientists have explored the elusive void, and the rich discoveries that they have        made there. He takes the reader on a lively and accessible history through ancient        ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research. He describes        how scientists discovered that the vacuum is filled with fields; how Newton, Mach,        and Einstein grappled with the nature of space and time; and how the mysterious        'aether' that was long ago supposed to permeate thevoid may now be making a comeback        with the latest research into the 'Higgs field'.We now know that the vacuum is far        from being empty - it seethes with virtual particles and antiparticles that erupt        spontaneously into being, and it also may contain hidden dimensions that we were        previously unaware of. These new discoveries may 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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