The science of Discworld
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- 14 ore di lettura
Il Mondo Disco e la ScienzaSerie
Questa serie fonde magistralmente scienza e fantasia, esplorando come le leggi del nostro universo si manifestano in un mondo governato dalla magia e dall'assurdità. Segui un cast unico di personaggi mentre approfondiscono la fisica, l'astronomia e la natura stessa della realtà. È un viaggio umoristico ma perspicace per i lettori che apprezzano commenti arguti e concetti scientifici sconvolgenti presentati attraverso una lente fantastica.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
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Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld.
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Zemneplocha má problém – Charlese Darwina. Přesněji řečeno, někdo tajemný a neznámý považuje existenci Charlese Darwina za neodpustitelnou urážku, a tak důmyslně pozmění časoprostorové kontinuum, aby se tento vědec nikdy nedobral svých slavných objevů. Situace je vážná, neboť bez vzniku darwinismu nemají obyvatelé Zemneplochy šanci sestrojit vesmírný výtah a uniknout do vesmíru dříve, než do jejich světa narazí nějaká další zatracená ledová koule. Avšak ještě není nic ztraceno, dokud existují mágové Neviditelné univerzity, kteří by za svůj výtvor dali ruku do ohně. Tedy, něčí ruku rozhodně. Největší magická armáda Zeměplochy se dává do pohybu, aby bojovala za budoucnost té malé kulaté planety, samozřejmě za podmínky, že do oběda budou zpátky. A krom toho všeho k nám ještě promluví Ian Stewart a Jack Cohen o evoluci, červích dírách, o číslech, které mají víc nul, než bankovní účet Billa Gatese, a o tom, proč Ch. Darwin nikdy nedostal Nobelovu cenu.
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They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book?
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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett’s brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy. Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job – and indeed the truth of words – very seriously. She doesn’t know it, but her world and ours – Roundworld – is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing… The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by Omnians, who say that the Wizards’ god-like actions make a mockery of their noble religion. As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a zombie and a priest) gird their loins to do battle – and when the Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on – Marjorie Daw finds herself thrown across the multiverse and right in the middle of the whole explosive affair. As God, the Universe and, frankly, Everything Else is investigated by the trio, you can expect world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity in the Escher-verse, evolutionary design, eternal inflation, dark matter, disbelief systems – and an in-depth study of how to invent a better mousetrap.