Libro que me han regalado: The Science of the Discworld por Terry Partchett, Ian Stewart y Jack Cohen

La verdad es que nunca he leído nada de Terry Partchett. Supongo que primero intentaré leer algo de la saga de Discworld antes de intentar adentrarme en este libro. Pero bueno, por lo que puedo leer en la contraportada, este libro tiene una pinta de disfrutarse igual de bien, habiendo leído o no nada antes de este universo.

De la contraportada

In the fantasy universe of the phenomenally best-selling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. Our world seems different – it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. Science is our way of finding out what those rules are. The appeal of Discworld is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle physics doesn’t.

The Science of Discworld uses the magic of Discworld to illuminate the scientific rules that govern our world. When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocke universe on their hands: Round-world, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chande against logic.

Roundworld is, of course, our own universe. With us inside it (eventually). Guided (if that’s the word) by the wizards, we follow its story from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. 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 on what was going on…

Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen and Terry Partchett have combined talents to tell the sotry of the universe from outside, looking in. And from the outside it’s a magical as any world on a turtle…

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