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on 2/26/2008
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Frank Close, OBE, is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. In his new book, The Void Close tells the story of scientists’ efforts to understand the Void and in the process helps us understand that by seeking to understand the nature of the Void, we are confronting the enigma of why anything should exist at all. In the excerpt below Close looks at ancient conceptions of the Void.
The paradox of creation from the void, of Being and Non-Being, has tantalized all recorded cultures. As early as 1,700, years BC, the Creation Hymn of the Rigveda states that
There was neither non-existence nor existence then. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond. What stirred? Where? (more…)
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By Kirsty OUP-UK
What better way to find out about a book than to have the author themselves talk to you face-to-face about their book and how they came to write it? Alas, we aren’t yet quite technologically advanced enough to send Frank Close, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, into each and every one of your homes, so I hope that this specially-recorded video of him talking about his new book The Void will be the next best thing.
So, can nothing really exist? Does nature really abhor a vacuum? Let Frank Close tell you himself… (more…)
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