The Book of Nothing : Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

無之書: 萬物由何而生

基本信息

Author：John D. Barrow

Format：Paperback | 400 pages

Dimensions：129 x 198 x 25mm | 277g

Publication date：05 Jul 2001

Publisher：Vintage UK

Language：English

ISBN10：0099288451

ISBN13：9780099288459

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書籍簡介

你如何開始理解“無”的概念?

它從哪裏開始，又在哪裏結束?

從數學家的零到哲學家的空虛，從莎士比亞到空的集合，從以太到量子真空，從存在與虛無到無中生有，在事物的核心，無中生有太多的麻煩。

最近天文學上令人激動的發現揭示了真空的性質及其對宇宙解釋的戲劇性影響。這本非凡的書涵蓋了“虛無”的每一個角落和縫隙，揭示了在人類探索的每一個領域，人類的大腦是如何從“虛無”中創造出一些東西的。

How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing?

Where does it begin and where does it end?

From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things.

Recent exciting discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect upon the explanation of the Universe. This remarkable book ranges over every nook and cranny of nothingness to reveal how the human mind has had to make something of nothing in every field of human enquiry.

作者簡介

約翰·D·巴羅是數學科學教授，劍橋大學千年數學項目主任，劍橋大學克萊爾霍爾研究員，皇家學會研究員，現任倫敦格雷欣學院格雷欣幾何教授。他的主要科學研究領域是宇宙學，他寫了許多備受讚譽的書，內容涉及物理學、天文學和數學的現代發展的性質和意義，包括《宇宙的起源》《發現自己的宇宙》《無之書》《自然的常量》《無限之書：一個通向無限、永恆和無盡的簡短指南》《巧妙的宇宙擴張》《萬物的新理論》以及《宇宙意象》。

John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe, The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing, The Constants of Nature, The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, New Theories of Everything, and Cosmic Imagery.