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1 online resource (492 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue: A Quick Proof That There Must Be Something Rather Than Nothing, for Modern People Who Lead Busy Lives; 1. Confronting the Mystery; Interlude: Could Our World Have Been Created by a Hacker?; 2. Philosophical Tour d'Horizon; Interlude: The Arithmetic of Nothingness; 3. A Brief History of Nothing; 4. The Great Rejectionist; 5. Finite or Infinite?; Interlude: Night Thoughts at the Café de Flore; 6. The Inductive Theist of North Oxford; Interlude: The Supreme Brute Fact; 7. The Magus of the Multiverse; Interlude: The End of Explanation |
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8. The Ultimate Free Lunch?Interlude: Nausea; 9. Waiting for the Final Theory; Interlude: A Word on Many Worlds; 10. Platonic Reflections; Interlude: It from Bit; 11. "The Ethical Requiredness of There Being Something"; Interlude: An Hegelian in Paris; 12. The Last Word from All Souls; Epistolary Interlude: The Proof; 13. The World as a Bit of Light Verse; 14. The Self: Do I Really Exist?; 15. Return to Nothingness; Epilogue: Over the Seine; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 B |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Existentialism.
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Cosmology.
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Existentialism
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existentialism.
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cosmology.
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Cosmology
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Existentialism
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847654106 |
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184765410X |
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9780871403278 |
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0871403277 |
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