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'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces all our efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. With sly humour and a highly original personal approach Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective. Suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God and the Big Bang, he tracks down, among others, an eccentric Oxford philosopher, a Nobel Laureate physicist, a French Buddhist monk, and John Updike just before he died, to pursue this cosmic puzzle from every angle. As he pieces together a solution - while offering useful insights into time, consciousness, and eternity - he sheds fascinating new light on the meaning of existence.
A New York Times bestseller on first publication, this new paperback edition provides a much-needed new take on history's greatest conundrum, in the vein of previous bestsellers like Michael Brooks' 13 Things that Don't Make Sense.
Author
Jim Holt
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Published
June 2013
Edition
Main
Weight
270g
Page Count
320
Dimensions
130 x 197 x 20 mm
ISBN
9781846682452
ISBN-10
1846682452
Eden Code
4650404
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Author/Creator: Jim Holt
ISBN: 9781846682452
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Release Date: June 2013
Weight: 270g
Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 20 mm
Eden Code: 4650404