Table of Contents

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.

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Reviews

`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.
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C.W. Kilmister, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1994