Simon Saunders: Introduction; Albert Einstein: On the ether; R.
Penrose: The mass of the classical vacuum; Simon Saunders & Harvey
R. Brown: Reflections on ether; Simon Saunders: The negative-energy
sea; Gordon N. Fleming: The vacuum on null planes; D.W. Sciama: The
physical significance of the vacuum state of a quantum field;
I.J.R. Aitchison: The vacuum and unification; Robert Weingard:
Making everything out of nothing; B.J. Hiley: Vacuum or
holomovement; David Finklestein: Theory of vacuum; Michael Atiyah:
Topology of the vacuum; Peter J. Braam: How empty is the vacuum?;
Index.
Containing a hitherto untranslated paper by Einstein
`The ideas expressed by the physicists are in many cases very
interesting and challenging ... A very interesting collection
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Metascience 1992, No 2
`For those with the necessary expertise, this book will provide an
illuminating and authoritative exposition of a many-sided
subject.
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Times Literary Supplement
`A very interesting collection
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Metascience, 1992, No. 2
`useful collection ... This collection is a valuable one because it
contains, in addition to what is implied by the title, readable
discussions of the ideas behind much of the frontier of physics as
the twentieth century draws to a close.
'
C.W. Kilmister, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
Vol. 8, No. 2, 1994
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