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Why Does The World Exist?: One Man's Quest For The Big Answer

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Why Does The World Exist?: One Man's Quest For The Big AnswerWhy Does The World Exist?: One Man's Quest For The Big Answer An irreverent sleuth tackles the riddle of existence that has puzzled man since the dawn of time '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

Why Does The World Exist?: One Man's Quest For The Big Answer

An irreverent sleuth tackles the riddle of existence that has puzzled man since the dawn of time

'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.

'There is no more entertaining, sure-footed, and witty guide to the big questions that we must all ponder than Jim Holt. Join him' - Daily Beast

'Praise for Stop Me If You've Heard This: 'Sweet, witty and intelligent ... I only wish that, unlike a good joke, it was longer.' - Guardian

'If Jim Holt's deft and consuming 'Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story' has anything to tell us, it's that such a comment is less about literary riffing than deep philosophy.' - LA Times

'Holt brings both complexity and clarity to his subject ... it does what real science writing should: It helps us feel the fullness of the problem.' - Vulture

'There is no more entertaining, sure-footed, and witty guide to the big questions that we must all ponder than Jim Holt. Join him.' - The Daily Beast

'Humorous yet deeply profound' - New Scientist

'There's no denying the pleasures to be had from tagging along as Holt soars away into the heavens of our cosmic enigmas ... a wonderful book' - Daily Express

'What is special about Why Does the World Exist? is that Holt and the experts he talks to apply humour, good sense and a dose of incredulity and wonder to the problem' - Independent

'An eclectic mix of theology, cutting-edge science (of the cosmological and particle-physics variety) and extremely abstract philosophising, rendered (mostly) accessible by Mr Holt's facility with analogies and clear, witty language' - Economist

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Jim Holt - Джим Холт

Publisher:Profile Books

Language:English

Publication Date:2013

Number of pages:320 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:130 mm / 5,1'

Height:196 mm / 7,7'

Weight:220 g

ISBN:9781846682452

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