Paperback review: Nothing, Edited by Jeremy Webb
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Your support makes all the difference.This book starts with a bang, a very big one 13.82 billion years ago, when an object “roughly the size of a pea” transformed nothing into something.
It concludes around 100 quintillion (don’t ask) years from now when “our observable universe is reduced to a diaspora of dead stars.” Between these brackets, a posse of New Scientist writers explore aspects of nothingness ranging from the vacuum of interplanetary space (“nowhere near as good as that achieved by a laboratory pump”) to the faith-based delay in inventing zero (“a Godless concept”).
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