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…
I always find it supprising when people confuse a vacuum, that is empty space, with nothing, the latter is devoid of space and time whereas the fomer includes space and time.
When I consider the question does nothing exist,I am trying to envisage a pre big bang senerio, or a position of no universe ie outside our universe.
Even the best vacuum, surely can not be described as nothing when it is made of spacetime.
These seem to be two very different concepts and yet I feel they are often confused,or maybe it is me who is confused. By the way I am not a scietist, or could you tell
Very interesting. I have been wondering the same thing, which is how I stumbled upon your video. So if nothing cannot exist do you believe the universe has always existed and was never actually “created”?