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The Book of Nothing

384 pages · 2002 · Rating 4.4

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In this dazzlingly erudite, elegantly written book by the English cosmologist John D. Barrow, you'll find answers to questions about nothingness that have puzzled scientists and philosophers for millennia: What is 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?

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