Theories of nothing

Theory of Nothing

The Globalization of Nothing

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the 2000 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. In addition to The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 1996, 2000; translated into a dozen languages), he is the ...

Something out of Nothing

Based in Fort Myers, Florida, Tony Gaglio says his work employs themes from contemporary art, abstract expressionism, and the psychedelic experience. You might surmise as much from his works’ titles—Astral Messenger, Halogen, High Life, Cytoplasm, Ascension, Brain Feeder, and Anubis Gateway, to rattle off but a few. Other images are hash-tagged with keywords such as #symmetrybuff, #trippy, or #...

The dual of nothing

We consider “bubbles of nothing” constructed by analytically continuing black hole solutions in Anti-de Sitter space. These provide interesting examples of smooth time-dependent backgrounds which can be studied through the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our examples include bubbles constructed from Schwarzschild-AdS, Kerr-AdS and Reissner-Nordstrom AdS. The Schwarzschild bubble is dual to Yang-Mills t...

Nothing Relevant. Nothing Relevant 1 Undoing Actions in Collaborative Work

Due to lack of full awareness of other users' intentions, the possibility of inadvertent mistakes is higher in collaborative work, and yet most current collaborative systems fail to provide adequate facilities for undoing actions. This limitationoccurs because undo facilities of single-user systems do not readily apply to collaborative systems. In this paper, we propose a general framework for ...