Frank Close is a British physicist and science writer who wrote Nothing: A Very Short Introduction.

Quotes by Frank Close in Time One

Everything may thus be a quantum fluctuation out of nothing. But if this is so, I am still confronted with the enigma of what encoded the quantum possibility into the Void.

If empty space is something, and if now you place a body in this empty space, you would have two ‘somethings’ at the same point at the same time.

The fact that every cubic metre of space is filled with dark energy in amounts that are incredibly tiny, and yet not quite zero, is a profound puzzle about the nature of the vacuum, the ‘cost’ of free space.

[T]here is no ether at all. This is now the received wisdom following Einstein’s work ….