Nothing: A Very Short Introduction pdf

Frank Close est né en 1945 après JC à Peterborough, il a reçu l'OBE, et il est professeur de physique à l'Université d'Oxford et membre de l'Exeter College. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs livres à succès tels que : The Lucifer Legacy, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, The New Cosmic Onion, The Particle Explosion, The End, Extremely Thorny, et "The Particle Saga" et "Antimatter". Il a réalisé plusieurs réalisations, dont : - Ordre de l'Empire britannique au grade d'officier. Bourse de l'Institut de physique en 1991. Prix ​​Kelvin en 1996. - Vice-président de l'Association britannique pour l'avancement des sciences 1993-99. - Responsable de l'équipe britannique aux Olympiades Internationales de Physique depuis 2003. - Prix Michael Faraday en 2013.

Nothing: A Very Short Introduction pdf par 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?