Hole in the Universe How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything

Name: Hole in the Universe How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
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ISBN: 9780156013178

ISBN-10: 0156013177

ISBN-13: 9780156013178

Edition: 2000

Authors: K. C. Cole

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An adventure into the heart of Nothing by bestselling author K. C. Cole. Once again, acclaimed science writer K. C. Cole brings the arcane and acad- emic down to the level of armchair scientists in The Hole in the Universe, an entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all. Open the newspaper on any given day and you will read of a newly discovered planet, star, and so on. Yet scientists and mathematicians have spent generations searching the far reaches of the universe for that one elusive state-nothingness. Although this may sound like a simple task, every time the absolute void appears within reach, something new is discovered in its place: a black hole, an undulating…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

A popular science columnist for the Los Angeles Times and teacher at UCLA, K.C. Cole is a recipient of the 1995 American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writing. She is also the author of the internationally bestselling The Universe and the Teacup, First You Build a Cloud, and The Hole in the Universe. Cole lives in Santa Monica, California.



Preface: Appreclations, Attributions, and Apologies



Why Not? A Prelude



Nothing Happened



Good for Nothing



Nothing Takes Center Stage



Nothing Becomes Center Stage



Nothing Gets Strung Out



Nothing Becomes Everything



Nothing in the News



Nothing on Your Mind



In Search of Nothing


Supporting Cast


Bibliography


Index