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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Holt |
| ISBN: | 9780871404091 0871404095 |
| OCLC Number: | 793973660 |
| Description: | vi, 309 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | A quick proof that there must be something rather than nothing, for modern people who lead busy lives -- Confronting the mystery -- Could our world have been created by a hacker? -- Philosophical tour d'horizon -- The arithmetic of nothingness -- A brief history of nothing -- The Great Rejectionist -- Finite or infinite? -- Night thoughts at the Café de Flore -- The inductive theist of North Oxford -- The supreme brute fact -- The Magus of the Multiverse -- The end of explanation -- The ultimate free lunch? -- Nausea -- Waiting for the final theory -- A word on many worlds -- Platonic reflections -- It from bit -- "The ethical requiredness of there being something" -- An Hegelian in Paris -- The last word from All Souls -- Epistolary interlude: The proof -- The world as a bit of light verse -- The self: do I really exist? -- Return to nothingness -- Over the Seine. |
| Responsibility: | Jim Holt. |
Abstract:
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
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