WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST?

'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 th e universe. With sly humour and a highly original personal approach Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective. Suggesting tha t we migh...[Read more]