Aaron Sidney Wright, PhD, is Assistant Professor of History at Dalhousie University and the University of King's College in Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in the Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University.
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Chapter 1: The Vacuum in Practice Chapter 2: Paul Dirac's Seas and Bubbles Chapter 3: Nascent Pairs and Virtual Possibilities Chapter 4: Weisskopf, Schwinger, Feynman: Vacuum Loops and Fluctuations Chapter 5: John Archibald Wheeler: Everything from Nothing Chapter 6: Roger Penrose's Impossible Diagrams Chapter 7: Sidney Coleman's False Vacuum Chapter 8: Epilogue Chapter 9: The Void Appendix A: Perturbations Appendix B: Fluctuations Bibliography
