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The Hole in the Universe : How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything Paperback - 2001
by K. C. Cole
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- Good
- Paperback
The award-winning author of "The Universe and the Teacup" brings the arcane and academic down to the level of armchair scientists in this entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all.
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- Title The Hole in the Universe : How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
- Author K. C. Cole
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156013177I3N00
- ISBN 9780156013178 / 0156013177
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.32 x 0.84 in (20.22 x 13.51 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Physics - Philosophy, Nothing (Philosophy)
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.01
Summary
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 string, an additional dimension of space or time-even another universe. A fascinating and literary tour de force, The Hole in the Universe is a virtual romp into the unknown that you never knew wasn't there.
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 string, an additional dimension of space or time-even another universe. A fascinating and literary tour de force, The Hole in the Universe is a virtual romp into the unknown that you never knew wasn't there.
From the publisher
First line
THERE IS A HOLE in the universe.