The Hole in the Universe; How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything.

New York:: Harcourt, 2001., 2001. 8vo. xii, 274 pp. Figs., index. Two-tone boards, dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 015100398X / 0-15-100398-X "An adventure into the heart of Nothing by best-selling author K. C. Cole. / Once again, acclaimed science writer K. C. Cole brings the arcane and academic down to the level of armchair scientists in The Hole in the Universe, an entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all. Open the newspaper on any given day and you will read of a newly discovered planet, star, and so on. Yet scientists and mathematicians have spent generations searching the far reaches of the universe for that one elusive state—nothingness. / Although this may sound like a simple task, every time the absolute void appears within reach, something new is discovered in its place: a black hole, an undulating string, an additional dimension of space or time—even another universe. A fascinating and literary tour de force, The Hole in the Universe is a virtual romp into the unknown that you never knew wasn't there." – [publisher]. COLE is "a popular science columnist for the Los Angeles Times and teacher at UCLA, K.C. Cole is a recipient of the 1995 American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writing. She is also the author of the internationally bestselling The Universe and the Teacup, First You Build a Cloud, and The Hole in the Universe. Cole lives in Santa Monica, California."