writer for the new yorker and author of "why does the world exist?"
Jim Holt appears in the following:
The Nothing Behind Everything
Friday, July 25, 2025
To understand everything, you might need to believe in some things you’ll never, ever see.
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.
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 ...
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.
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?
