A dialogue with nature; The physics of mass.(The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces)(Book review)

The Economist (US) | September 6, 2008 | Copyright

NATURE abhors a vacuum; physicists are none too keen on it either. However, conceptual attempts to fill it up, most famously with ether as a hypothetical medium, have regularly created more problems than they solved. This is because whatever occupies empty space would have to be somehow different from the tangible stuff the world is made of. Now, in a fascinating twist, modern physics challenges the ancient dichotomy between substance and void. What is perceived as empty space turns out to be a new kind of ether, a patchwork of quantum fields teeming with spontaneous ...

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