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Much ado from nothing

Horizons No. 144

Thinking about the limits of the universe and a place for nothingness leads to logical dead ends. This is precisely the home turf of science: it does not stop at what it knows and can do, but goes one step further and asks: ‘What if it were not so?’ The paradoxes that come to light often lead to peak performances and unexpected discoveries: from self-knowledge to new technologies.

Horizons No. 143 (German)
  • The impossibility of absence
  • Not so empty
  • And there’s always something
  • The many faces of zero
  • “OK, so you’d like to die. Tell me more about it”
  • Photo gallery: Swallowed up by black holes

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