Jim Holt

writer for the new yorker and author of "why does the world exist?"

Jim Holt appears in the following:

An Existential Detective Story

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Jim Holt, essayist, critic, and author of Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, discusses his new book, which investigates the age-old mystery of why is there something rather nothing.

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Solid as a Rock

Monday, December 31, 2012

It's comforting to think that if you take an object -- a rock, let's say -- and break it down into tinier and tinier more elemental parts...
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An Existential Detective Story

Monday, July 16, 2012

Jim Holt, essayist, critic, and author of Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, discusses his new book, which investigates the age-old mystery of why is there something rather nothing.

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Why Does the World Exist?

Friday, July 13, 2012

The discovery of a what's being called a Higgs-like particle brought us one step closer to figuring out how the universe came into existence. But why did the universe come into existence in the first place?

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