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One of Brain Pickings' Best Science Books of 2014Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds - all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is as curious - or as enlightening - as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate - from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect - and discover that understanding nothing may be the key to understanding everything: What came before the big bang, and will our universe end? How might cooling matter down almost to absolute zero help solve our energy crisis? How can someone suffer from a false diagnosis as though it were true? Does nothingness even exist? Recent experiments suggest that squeezing a perfect vacuum somehow creates light.



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