More Than Nothing: A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1925-1980

by Wright

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 still, the physicists' vacuum is a hive of activity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190062800
• ISBN13: 9780190062804
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"