The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition Audiobook (Free)
- Stephen Briggs, Michael Fenton Stevens
- 13 h 47 min
- Random House UK
- 2012-05-03
Summary:
In the ‘fantasy’ universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything operates on magic and good sense. The globe can be smooth and million-to-one probabilities happen nine instances out of ten. Our world appears different – it operates on rules, frequently rather strange types. Technology is definitely our way of learning what those rules are. The selling point of Discworld is usually that it mainly makes sense, in a manner that particle physics does not. The Science of Discworld uses the magic of Discworld to illuminate the about The Technology Of Discworld Revised Edition scientific rules that govern our world.
When a wizardly experiment moves adrift, the wizards of Unseen School find themselves with a pocket universe on the hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense appears to stand an opportunity against logic. The Universe, of course, is definitely our very own. And Roundworld is usually Globe. As the wizards view their accidental creation grow, we adhere to the tale of our universe through the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the web and beyond. Through this primary Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we learn how puny and insignificant specific lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. However, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on guidelines, has resulted in a complex world with least one species that tried to obtain a hold of that which was going on.
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