Void [electronic resource] : the strange physics of nothing / James Owen Weatherall.

James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In his newest volume, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff--protons, neutrons, electr...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Foundational questions in science.
Main Author: Weatherall, James Owen (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press : Templeton Press, [2016]
Series:Foundational questions in science.
Subjects:
Physics > Philosophy.
Nothing (Philosophy)
Space.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2016 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2016 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2016 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Prologue : much ado about nothing
  • The plenum and the void
  • Waves of space itself
  • The nothing nothings
  • Epilogue : why nothing really matters : quantum gravity and beyond.