I'm glad this aspect of Poe is becoming more well-known! I for one was shocked when I learned that he anticipated spacetime in Eureka, where he wrote "space and

I'm glad this aspect of Poe is becoming more well-known! I for one was shocked when I learned that he anticipated spacetime in Eureka, where he wrote "space and duration are one." In the same work he says "because Nothing was, therefore All Things are," which is strikingly like e.g. Russell Standish's The Theory of Nothing, a very interesting take on modern cosmology. edit: Russell Standish's book is available free for personal use, it's one of my favorites and definitely worth reading if you're in to the idea of an information theory cosmology: https://www.hpcoders.com.au/theory-of-nothing.pdf https://www.hpcoders.com.au/theory-of-nothing.pdf