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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. 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
The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series deals with the really big questions: God, the Universe and Everything Else. Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story JUDGEMENT DAY is annotated with very big footnotes (interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, science and philosophy.
The discovery of wheeled objects buried in the icy surface of Jupiter's eighth moon leads to the even more bizarre revelation that Jupiter is in fact populated by a mysterious race of aliens. Reprint.
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.
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.
