The Science of Discworld

by Ian Stewart (Author), Terry Pratchett (Author), Jack S. Cohen (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.42

  In the universe of Discworld, events follow the dictates of commonsense in a way that the particle physics of our own world does not.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.64

  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.