The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World

di A.K. Dewdney (Autore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2000

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.

• Autore: A.K. Dewdney
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Anno: 2000
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 247 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9780387989167

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