The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition
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Seslendiren:
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Michael Fenton Stevens
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Stephen Briggs
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Yazan:
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Ian Stewart
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Jack Cohen
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Terry Pratchett
In the 'fantasy' universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different - it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle physics does not. The Science of Discworld uses the magic of Discworld to illuminate the scientific rules that govern our world.
When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.
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Absolutely brilliant
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At the start I thought perhaps I'd made a mistake buying this audio book. It's so heavily laden with facts and figures, to begin with I found it challenging to consume. But once you go with flow of switching from discworld to 'roundworld' it turns boring science into something to wonder for hours after. Each chapter intellectually considers huge topics and lays it out into how the discworld differs, punctuated with short chapters switching into the discworld itself and the interesting and unusual ways in which the characters perceive a universe similar to our own. brilliant audio book, I've already bought the next one!
really gets you thinking....
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Written in narrative form, with examples given by Discworld characters and lore, The Science of Discworld combines STP’s skill for storytelling, his comical observations of the Roundworld, and actual science to explain how our Universe works.
You don’t need to have read much - or any - Discworld to understand this book, but it will add an extra dimension of enjoyment if you’re familiar with the characters and lore.
The Science of Discworld is informative, funny and interesting. The examples given are memorable and brought to life in STP’s inimitable style. Highly recommended.
Roundworld science in narrative form
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