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	Vintage The Book of Nothing From our modern perspective, it is easy to deride the wranglings of medieval scholars over the numbers of angels that could dance on the head of a pin and whether Nature abhorred a vacuum. But as John Barrow reveals in this timely and important book, new discoveries in science have shown that these scholars were right to suspect that Nothing has hidden depths. It is a concept shot through with paradoxes: even innocent-looking phrases like ­Nothing is real­ flip their meanings as we ponder them, like those illusions that look like a vase one moment, and opposing faces the next. Nothing is fertile too, as Barrow shows with a stunning trick that allows every number one can think of to be built out of nothing at all. But his book is about far more than mind games. Arguably the most important discovery of 20th century physics is that there is no such thing as nothing: even the tightest vacuum is teeming with sub-atomic particles popping in and out of existence according to the dictates of quantum theory. Now many astronomers suspect that such ­vacuum effects­ may have triggered the Big Bang itself, filling our universe with matter. Indeed, the very latest observations suggest that vacuum effects will dictate the ultimate fate of the universe. As an internationally respected cosmologist, Barrow does a fine job of explaining these new discoveries. The result is a book that is required reading for anyone wanting to understand why there will be much ado about Nothing among scientists in the years ahead --<I>Robert Matthews</I>     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£7.19 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Vintage Impossibility: Limits of Science and the Science of Limits Pages: 304, Paperback, Vintage     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£7.19 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Vintage The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless Pages: 352, Paperback, Vintage     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£7.19 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Phoenix Press The Origin of the Universe: To the Edge of Space and Time (Science Masters S.) Pages: 176, Paperback, Phoenix Press     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£5.59 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
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	Jonathan Cape The Constants of Nature Pages: 353, Hardcover, Jonathan Cape     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£17.09 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Vintage The Constants of Nature Pages: 256, Paperback, Vintage     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£7.19 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Oxford University Press The Artful Universe Expanded Pages: 334, Hardcover, Oxford University Press     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£13.20 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Oxford Paperbacks The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks) Pages: 726, Paperback, Oxford Paperbacks     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£9.89 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Oxford Paperbacks Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art and Philosophy The publication over a decade ago of Stephen Hawking's soaraway best-seller <I>A Brief History of Time</I> triggered a flood of more or less comprehensible books about the frontiers of physics and mathematics. And to judge by most of their authors, we are on the brink of finding the Theory of Everything, or the key to the cosmos, or some other ­holy grail­ of science. <p> Altogether rarer are authors like John Barrow, professor of physics at Sussex University, a genuine expert in these fields who writes coolly and clearly about the current state of play. <I>Between Inner Space and Outer Space</I> is a collection of Barrow's writings about the frontiers of science dating back to 1980, and is remarkable for the number of fresh twists and insights it brings to many now-familiar debates. For example, are scientists really close to a Theory of Everything, uniting all the fundamental forces in the universe, and all the particles on which they act? Barrow shows how the quest may be stymied by fundamental limits to knowledge that have emerged from 20th-century mathematics. Are scientists really close to understanding the birth of the universe? Again, Barrow shows that a whole set of limitations--not least of which is the fact that light travels at a finite speed--forever stops us knowing for sure if our ideas are right. As in any collection, there is a modicum of repetition and a few ill-judged selections. Even so, any reader seeking thoughtful, sophisticated and above all original writing about the cutting edge of physics and mathematics need look no further. <I>--Robert Matthews</I>     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£6.39 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop