| Management number | 232086695 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$10.01 | Model Number | 232086695 | ||
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When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in?nitesimally thin universe, and x preface to the millennium edition in its bizarre but oddly workable organisms. This was not just your r- of-the-mill universe fashioned out of the whole cloth of wish-driven imagination. The planiverse is a weirder place than that precisely - cause so much of it was “worked out” by a virtual team of scientists and technologists. Reality, even thepseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up. Read more
| ASIN | B001C6JWBY |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-1461301998 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 5.0 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | Copernicus |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 278 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | December 6, 2012 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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