The Book of Nothing 1st Edition by John Barrow ISBN 978-0375726095 0375726095
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ISBN 10: 0375726095
ISBN 13: 978-0375726095
Author: John D. Barrow
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You’ll find the answers in this dizzyingly erudite and elegantly explained book by the English cosmologist John D. Barrow.
Ranging through mathematics, theology, philosophy, literature, particle physics, and cosmology, The Book of Nothing explores the enduring hold that vacuity has exercised on the human imagination. Combining high-wire speculation with a wealth of reference that takes in Freddy Mercury and Shakespeare alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking, the result is a fascinating excursion to the vanishing point of our knowledge.
Table of contents:
0 Nothingology – Flying to Nowhere
Mysteries of Non-existence
Nothing Ventured
Nothing Gained
1 Zero – The Whole Story
The Origin of Zero
Egypt – In Need of Nothing
Babylon – The Writing Is on the Wall
The No-entry Problem and the Babylonian Zero
The Mayan Zero
The Indian Zero
Indian Conceptions of Nothingness
The Travelling Zeros
The Evolution of Words for Zero
A Final Accounting
2 Much Ado About Nothing
Welcome to the Hotel Infinity
Greeks, Bearing Gifts
Islamic Art
St Augustine
The Medieval Labyrinth
Writers and Readers
Shakespearean Nothings
Paradox Lost
3 Constructing Nothing
The Search for a Vacuum
A Tale of Two Nothings
How Much of Space Is Space?
4 The Drift Towards the Ether
Newton and the Ether: To Be Or Not To Be?
Darkness in the Ether
Natural Theology of the Ether
A Decisive Experiment
The Amazing Shrinking Man
Einstein and the End of the Old Ether
5 Whatever Happened to Zero?
Absolute Truth – Where Is It To Be Found?
Many Zeros
Creation Out of the Empty Set
Surreal Numbers
God and the Empty Set
Long Division
6 Empty Universes
Dealing With Entire Universes on Paper
Vacuum Universes
Ernst Mach – A Man of Principle
Lambda – A New Cosmic Force
Deep Connections
7 The Box That Can Never Be Empty
It’s a Small World After All
The New Vacuum
All At Sea in the Vacuum
The Lamb Shift
Forces of the World Unite
Vacuum Polarisation
Black Holes
8 How Many Vacuums Are There?
Vacuum Landscape Appreciation
The Unification Road
Vacuum Fluctuations Made Me
Inflation All Over the Place
Multiple Vacuums
Eternal Inflation
Inflation and New Lambda
Falling Downstairs
Bits of Vacuum
9 The Beginning and the End of the Vacuum
Being Out of Nothingness
Creation Out of Nothing
Philosophical Problems About Nothing and How We
Escaped From It
Creation Out of Nothing in Modern Cosmology
No Creation Out of Anything?
The Future of the Vacuum
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