More Than Nothing: A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1925-1980 - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190062804ISBN-10:190062800UPC:9780190062804Book Category:Education, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.90 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCG49ZFFXW
More Than Nothing: A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1925-1980
The vacuum is central to physicists' best theories of subatomic particles, gravitation, and cosmology. Nothingness provides the reference point with which to compare new particle creation and annihilation. Cosmologists use empty universes to study the causal structure of spacetime. Paradoxically, our best physical theories of particles, gravity, and spacetime are theories of nothingness. Stranger...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190062804ISBN-10:190062800UPC:9780190062804Book Category:Education, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.90 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SCG49ZFFXW
Aaron Sidney Wright, PhD, is Assistant Professor of History at Dalhousie University and the University of King's College in Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in the Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University.
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