The Philosophy of Vacuum (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198244493)

The vacuum is fast emerging as the central structure of modern physics. This collection brings together philosophically-minded specialists who engage these issues in the context of classical gravity, quantum electrodynamics, and the grand unification program. The vacuum emerges as the synthesis of concepts of space, time, and matter; in the context of relativity and the quantum this new synthesis represents a structure of the most intricate and novel complexity. This book is a work in modern metaphysics, in which the concepts of substance and space interweave in the most intangible of forms, the background and context of our physical experience: vacuum, void, or nothingness.

Author: Simon Saunders
ISBN-10: 0198244495
ISBN-13: 9780198244493
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/1991
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.79w x 0.99d