"It's a nice read for people with little background knowledge"--New Scientist
"Close is a particle physicst at heart, and he hist his stride as he explains why scientists now don't think a void is really empty at all, but is teeming with particles popping in and out of existence and pervaded by contemporary version of the ether, called the Higgs field."--Publishers Weekly
"The Higgs boson remains the missing ingredient of the remarkably successful standard model of particle physics that describes interactions between the sub-nuclear elementary particles to an impressive precision, and The Void provides an introduction to the underlying concepts. It is nice to think
that the explanations may help the physics community share its extraordinary excitement and anticipation with others."--The Times Higher Education Supplement
"It's a nice read for people with little background knowledge"--New Scientist
"Close is a particle physicst at heart, and he hist his stride as he explains why scientists now don't think a void is really empty at all, but is teeming with particles popping in and out of existence and pervaded by contemporary version of the ether, called the Higgs field."--Publishers Weekly
"The Higgs boson remains the missing ingredient of the remarkably successful standard model of particle physics that describes interactions between the sub-nuclear elementary particles to an impressive precision, and The Void provides an introduction to the underlying concepts. It is nice to think that the explanations may help the physics community share its extraordinary excitement and anticipation with others."--The Times Higher Education Supplement
