By Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
An excellent new Discworld tale from Terry Pratchett. The fourth e-book within the technology of Discworld sequence, and this time round facing THE relatively mammoth QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's terrific new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very monstrous footnotes (the interleaving chapters) via mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to deliver you a mind-mangling mixture of fiction, state-of-the-art technological know-how and philosophy.Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her task -- and certainly the reality of phrases -- very heavily. She does not comprehend it, yet her global and ours -- Roundworld -- is in enormous hassle. On Discworld, a huge row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen college think chargeable for Roundworld (as one could for a puppy gerbil). in the end, they introduced it into lifestyles by means of bungling an scan in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. yet criminal motion is being introduced opposed to them through Omnians, who say that the Wizards' god-like activities make a mockery in their noble faith. because the best criminal brains in Discworld (a zombie and a clergyman) gird their loins to do conflict -- and whilst the nice significant factor within the excessive power Magic Laboratory is switched on -- Marjorie Dawe unearths herself thrown around the multiverse and correct in the midst of the complete explosive affair.As God, the Universe and, frankly, every little thing Else is investigated by way of the trio, you could count on world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity within the Escher-verse, evolutionary layout, everlasting inflation, darkish subject, disbelief platforms -- and an in-depth learn of the way to invent a greater mousetrap.
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The four bosons ‘mediate’ the forces, much as two tennis players are held together by their mutual attention to the ball. The electromagnetic force is mediated by the photon, the weak nuclear force is mediated by the Z-boson and the W-boson, and the strong nuclear force is mediated by the gluon. So that’s the standard model: twelve fermions (six quarks, six leptons) held together by four bosons. Sixteen fundamental particles. Oh, and the Higgs boson – seventeen fundamental particles. Assuming, of course, that the fabled Higgs (as it is colloquially called) actually existed.
GREAT BIG THINKING 3. SEEPAGE BETWEEN WORLDS 4. WORLD TURTLES 5. MAGIC ISN’T REAL 6. REALITY ISN’T MAGIC 7. AMAZING GLOBE 8. BEMUSING GLOBE 9. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? BYE-BYE BIG BANG? DOES GOD WIGGLE HIS FINGERS? THE TURTLE MOVES! OVER-ZEALOUS ZEALOT 24. NOT COLLECTING STAMPS EPILOGUE: L-SPACE INDEX Copyright About the Book Order in Court! On Discworld an almighty row is brewing… The Omnians want control of Roundworld – its very existence makes a mockery of their religion. The wizards of Unseen University, however, are extremely reluctant to part with it.
The Ascent of Man would have been a better marketing ploy. Anyway, the wizards finally achieved success, even contriving to bring Darwin into Discworld to meet the God of Evolution and admire the wheels on his elephant. The publication of The Origin established the corresponding timeline as the only one that had ever happened. ) Roundworld was saved again, and could rest undisturbed on its shelf, gathering dust … Until— fn1 Falling off deliberately is another matter, about which they can be as imaginative as they wish.
