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- catalog abstract "Explores the concept of nothingness, from the origins of zero in ancient India to attempts by modern mathematics, cosmology, theology, and physics to explain the role of "nothing" in the structure of the universe.".
- catalog contributor b12038358.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Explores the concept of nothingness, from the origins of zero in ancient India to attempts by modern mathematics, cosmology, theology, and physics to explain the role of "nothing" in the structure of the universe.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and index.".
- catalog description "Nothingology--Flying to Nowhere -- Mysteries of Non-existence -- Nothing Ventured -- Nothing Gained -- 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 -- 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 -- Constructing Nothing -- The Search for a Vacuum -- A Tale of Two Nothings -- How Much of Space Is Space? -- 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 -- 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 -- Empty Universes -- Dealing With Entire Universes on Paper -- Vacuum Universes -- Ernst Mach--A Man of Principle -- Lambda--A New Cosmic Force -- Deep Connections -- 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 -- How Many Vacuums Are There?.".
- catalog extent "xv, 361 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0375420991".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog subject "111/.5 21".
- catalog subject "Nothing (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "QA141 .B36 2000".
- catalog subject "Vacuum.".
- catalog subject "Zero (The number)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Nothingology--Flying to Nowhere -- Mysteries of Non-existence -- Nothing Ventured -- Nothing Gained -- 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 -- 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 -- Constructing Nothing -- The Search for a Vacuum -- A Tale of Two Nothings -- How Much of Space Is Space? -- 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 -- 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 -- Empty Universes -- Dealing With Entire Universes on Paper -- Vacuum Universes -- Ernst Mach--A Man of Principle -- Lambda--A New Cosmic Force -- Deep Connections -- 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 -- How Many Vacuums Are There?.".
- catalog title "The book of nothing : vacuums, voids, and the latest ideas about the origins of the universe / John D. Barrow.".
- catalog type "text".