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Nothing: A Very Short Introduction. By Frank Close.
DOES anything remain when everything is taken away? This question has perplexed philosophers for thousands of years. In a new treatment, Frank Close, a physicist, examines the latest scientific thinking on the subject.
Most scientists believe that the universe was born in the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago. The vastness of space, its smattering of galaxies and stars, its planets and the conscious life that inhabits at least one such orb all came from this giant fireball. Not only was matter created at that point, so too were the forces that govern it and the fields that they generate. Further, time...