ISBN |
0871404095 (hardcover)
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ISBN13桁 |
9780871404091 (hardcover)
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テキストの言語 |
英語
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分類:NDC10版 |
112
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個人著者標目 |
Holt, Jim,
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生没年等 |
1954-
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本タイトル |
Why does the world exist? :
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タイトル関連情報 |
an existential detective story /
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著者名 |
Jim Holt.
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版表示 |
1st ed.
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出版地・頒布地 |
New York :
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出版者・頒布者名 |
Liveright Pub. Corp.,
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出版年・頒布年 |
c2012.
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数量 |
vi, 309 p. ;
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大きさ |
25 cm.
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書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index.
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内容注記 |
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.
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要約、抄録、注釈等 |
Why is there a world rather than nothing at all? This question 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 who insist that science alone is capable of explaining how our cosmos came into being, the author enters this debate as he examines our efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. He takes on the role of cosmological detective, and traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times, suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God and the Big Bang theory.
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一般件名 |
Cosmology.
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資料情報1 |
『Why does the world exist? :
an existential detective story /』1st ed. Jim Holt. Liveright Pub. Corp., c2012.
(所蔵館:中央
請求記号:F/112.0/H75/W
資料コード:7102129250)
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URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352006128 |