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The Science of Discworld

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307:(accidentally). This stabilizes the ball enough that, over a score of millennia (the wizards can skip over vast periods of Roundworld time, allowing them to view the history of the universe in less than a month), blobs of life emerge, ready to begin evolving into more complex forms. The book also features a fictional crab civilization and the dinosaurs (both of which are wiped out by comets/asteroids colliding with the earth), before jumping ahead to when an advanced civilization (presumably humans) has evacuated the earth due to an impending natural disaster. 300:), because in it, matter seems to accrete into balls in space (instead of discs on the backs of turtles). They decide to appoint Rincewind, whom they dragged out of bed in the early hours of the morning, the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, and send him down (against his will) to investigate this strange world. 315:
The science centres on the origins of the universe, earth and the beginnings of life, the fiction on the creation of a world (the Earth) in a jar. One of the themes is that most scientific explanations are in reality a good deal more complicated than most of us realize. It is explained that this is
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took it. The editor there was made to understand that if it sold less than 10,000 copies, he'd lose his job. (...) It sold more than 200,000 copies in the first year." He also states that the books were inspired by a "bloody awful" book on the science of
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Cohen reports that it was extremely difficult to find a publisher who was willing to purchase the book, saying "I spent two-and-a-half years going around editors. I must have had 80 . And they all said 'don't be stupid'. At last
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However, the wizards' new reactor produces vastly more magical energy than planned and threatens to explode, destroying the University, the Discworld, and the entire universe. The university's thinking engine,
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considered it "a fine popularization of science and of the scientific method", and "most unusual and entertaining", but observed that this makes it "something of an oddity".
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Things that aren't: things that are defined by being opposites, normally with only one of them being measurable and not both (light, heat, etc.).
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The concept of narrativium, introduced in the book (a fictional element responsible for the creation of
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and Professor Ian Stewart "Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University" at the same ceremony at which the
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The even-numbered chapters are self-contained essays that discuss, among others, the following topics:
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Stewart discussed his views on the book series in his paper "Mathematics, the media, and the public".
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is commissioned in the university's squash court. The new "reactor" is capable of splitting the
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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
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Where do Rules Come From?: Is a "Theory of Everything" possible?; Quantum Mechanics.
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Don't Look Up: Meteors and other things that might cause another global extinction.
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nuclear reactor, which was housed in a rackets court at the University of Chicago.
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The wizards create a series of balls of matter in space, and give one of them a
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The Shape of Things: The shape of the Universe; the Theory of Relativity.
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Air and Water. The atmosphere, the oceans, the surface of the planet.
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part of the book begins when a new experimental power source for the
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sticks his fingers in the space and "twiddles" them, inadvertently
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Beginnings and Becomings: The origin and nature of the Universe.
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Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS)
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1999 book by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
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Earth and Fire. Geology: the structure of planet Earth.
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Science and Magic: What is science and how it works.
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The periodic table. 1940:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day 1517: 1493: 1479: 1471: 1107:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day 785: 771: 763: 439:, have been reviewed by Ian C.W Hardy for 210:The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day 27: 20: 228:gave Terry Pratchett an honorary degree. 213:, have been written by the same authors. 724:"Mathematics, the media, and the public" 400:Ways to Leave your Planet: space travel. 1197:Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch 699: 697: 695: 648:New England Science Fiction Association 495: 429:New England Science Fiction Association 394:Anthill Inside: The origin of hominids. 250:An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump 1926:The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 1097:The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 437:The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 198:The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 165:The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 758:Internet Speculative Fiction Database 376:Universals and Parochials: Evolution. 364:Despite which...: The origin of life. 331:Squash Court Science: Nuclear energy. 7: 2267:Books by Ian Stewart (mathematician) 646:, reviewed by Mark L. Olson, at the 358:A Giant Leap for Moonkind: the moon. 248:, is a parody of the 1768 painting " 1228:Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? 244:The cover of the book, designed by 1972:The Unseen University Cut Out Book 1167:The Unseen University Cut Out Book 548:Clement, Jennifer (January 2013). 447:of our universe and recapitulates 385:Running from Dinosaurs: dinosaurs. 14: 666:Trends in Ecology & Evolution 517:Luthi, Daniel (15 October 2014). 441:Trends in Ecology & Evolution 370:The Descent of Darwin: Evolution. 183:and popular science writers (and 2216:Collected shorts and nonfiction 1182:The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld 1122:The Unseen University Challenge 367:Unnatural Selection: Evolution. 241:exposition after each chapter. 349:Disc Worlds. The Solar System. 1: 678:10.1016/s0169-5347(02)02561-2 403:Eden and Camelot. 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Index


Terry Pratchett
Ian Stewart
Jack Cohen
Paul Kidby
Discworld
Human history
Evolution
Rincewind
Unseen University Staff
Unseen University
Roundworld
Fantasy
Ebury Press
ISBN
978-0091865153
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
Terry Pratchett
University of Warwick
Ian Stewart
Jack Cohen
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day
Terry Pratchett
Jack Cohen
University of Warwick
Discworld
scientific
Paul Kidby

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