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The Science of Discworld (Ebury Press) (Paperback)
$9.71 - Save $1.35 (12%) - RRP $11.06 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Science of DiscworldWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld. 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 singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet.
Full description- Publisher: Ebury Press
- Published: 01 November 2002
- Format: Paperback 400 pages
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- Categories: Science: General Issues | Popular Science | Cosmology & The Universe
- ISBN 13: 9780091886578 ISBN 10: 0091886570
- Sales rank: 6,709
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Full description for The Science of Discworld
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.
