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The void / Frank Close.
- Title
- The void / Frank Close.
- Author
- Close, F. E.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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- Description
- ix, 166 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780199225903
- LCCN
- ^^2007034850
- OCLC
- 153553923
- SCSB-9940331
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library