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Nothing
ISBN/GTIN

Nothing

A Very Short Introduction
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
CHF19.50

Beschreibung

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 history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why the latest discoveries about the vacuum tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-922586-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
FormatA-Format Paperback (UK)
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum25.06.2009
Seiten176 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 111 mm, Höhe 174 mm, Dicke 9 mm
Gewicht135 g
Illustrationen20 B&W halftones
Artikel-Nr.3399565
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.4146451
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Autor

Frank Close, OBE, is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. He was formerly vice president of the British Association for Advancement of Science, Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Lucifer's Legacy (OUP, 2000), and was the winner of the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics'. His other books include Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (2004), The Cosmic Onion (1983), The Particle Explosion (1987), End (1988), Too Hot to Handle (1991), and The Particle Odyssey (OUP, 2002). In 2013 Professor Close was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science.