Dark Matter. Yes, I have read that too. The whole subject is so interesting.
Notice how much time Genz spends on the ancient Greeks (as I keep saying). The ancient Greeks may have been gods.
Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space
by Henning Genz, Karin Heusch (Translator)
Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 · rating details · 25 ratings · 6 reviews
Nothingness addresses one of the most puzzling problems of physics and philosophy: Does empty space have an existence independent of the matter within it? Is "empty space" really empty, or is it an ocean seething with the creation and destruction of virtual matter? With crystal-clear prose and more than 100 cleverly rendered illustrations, physicist Henning Genz takes the ...more
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rated it 5 of 5 stars
The biggest book about nothingness you will ever find. Fascinating!
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I am so excited about this book.
" Rob rated it 2 of 5 stars
Shelves: non-fiction-for-egghead-spacealiens
holy crap this dude's editor must have been on crack. one paragraph is about aristotle, the next about newton, the next about descartes, the next about thales, then parmenides, then guericke, then bohr, then anaximenes, then maxwell, then heraclitus, then democritus, then mach, then pythagoras, then torricelli. seriously, paragraph by paragraph, sometimes sentence by sentence.
there is tons of great information in this book, but i can't remember a damn thing, since it's one of the worst-structur ...more |
