Nothing: A Very Short Introduction pdf

Frank Close nació en 1945 DC en Peterborough, fue galardonado con el OBE, es profesor de física en la Universidad de Oxford y miembro del Exeter College. Es autor de varios libros superventas como: The Lucifer Legacy, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, The New Cosmic Onion, The Particle Explosion, The End, Extremely Thorny y "The Particle Saga" y "Antimateria". Logró varios logros, entre ellos: - Orden del Imperio Británico con rango de oficial. Beca del Instituto de Física en 1991. Premio Kelvin en 1996. - Vicepresidente de la Asociación Británica para el Avance de la Ciencia 1993-99. - Jefe del equipo británico en la Olimpiada Internacional de Física desde 2003. - Premio Michael Faraday en 2013.

Nothing: A Very Short Introduction pdf por Frank Close

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 the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. Frank Close tells the story of how scientists have explored the elusive void, and the rich discoveries that they have made there. He takes the reader on a lively and accessible history through ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research. He describes how scientists discovered that the vacuum is filled with fields; how Newton, Mach, and Einstein grappled with the nature of space and time; and how the mysterious 'aether' that was long ago supposed to permeate the void may now be making a comeback with the latest research into the 'Higgs field'. We now know that the vacuum is far from being empty - it seethes with virtual particles and antiparticles that erupt spontaneously into being, and it also may contain hidden dimensions that we were previously unaware of. These new discoveries may provide answers to some of cosmology's most fundamental questions: what lies outside the universe, and, if there was once nothing, then how did the universe begin?