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James Owen Weatherall

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James Owen Weatherall is a physicist, philosopher, and mathematician. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard, the Stevens Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Irvine, where is presently an assistant professor of logic and philosophy of science. He has written for Slate and Scientific American.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 3,149 ratings · 376 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable 3.85 avg rating — 1,894 ratings — published 2013 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall 3.76 avg rating — 973 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing 3.76 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Physics of Finance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nothing is not the absence of stuff; instead, it is just one possible configuration of stuff.”
― James Owen Weatherall, Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing

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“The idea that stuff—stars, books, blue whales—changes the geometry of space and time is a significant shift from Newton’s theory, or anything that came before it. But Einstein’s theory allows even more: it allows for space and time to be curved even when there is nothing present, anywhere or at any time. In fact, space and time can themselves behave in ways that are strikingly similar to electromagnetic radiation, such as light or radio waves. As we will see, this makes defining what it would even mean for there to be “nothing” in the universe extremely subtle.”
― James Owen Weatherall, Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing

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“Epilogue WHY NOTHING REALLY MATTERS:
QUANTUM GRAVITY AND BEYOND”
― James Owen Weatherall, Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing

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