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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series & 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 & biologist Jack Cohen to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction cutting-edge science & philosophy. Marjorie Daw is a librarian & takes her job
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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
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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. & 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 & beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen & Stewart) we discover how puny & insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation & disaster. Yet paradoxically we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world & at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.

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