Why Does the World Exist?
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jul 2025 on Radiolab.
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…exploring the fundamental nature of reality and whether matter is solid or ethereal
“His name is Jim Holt. Okay. And he wrote this really good book called Why Does the World Exist? And just to get us started. In that book, he quotes a poem. Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson. Break your bones. But cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones. Special thanks to Jim Holt, who—actually, we're both too shy to ever headbutt each other and too weak ever to try it. But anyway, he has a wonder—the book is called Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story.”
Radiolab — The Nothing Behind Everythingat 20:04
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