The void
by Close, F. E.
"What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space--a void--exist? Frank Close explores the science and the history of the elusive void : from Aristotle, who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos."--Page 4 of cover
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- Full title :The void / Frank Close.
Summary
"What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space--a void--exist? Frank Close explores the science and the history of the elusive void : from Aristotle, who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos."--Page 4 of cover
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- Publication Date:2010.
- Edition:Illustrated ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Sterling
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:182 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 19 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781402775383, 1402775385
- oclc:ocn436617564
- LC Classification:Q125
- Dewey Decimal:530.01
Table of 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.
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