Nothing: A Very Short Introduction

Author/Contributor(s):	Close, Frank
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	07/26/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Eminent scientist Frank Close here takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there. Readers will find an enlightening history of the vacuum: how the efforts to make a better vacuum led to the discovery of the electron; the ideas of Newton, Mach, and Einstein on the nature of space and time; and the latest ideas that the vacuum is filled with the Higgs field.