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* ** In \'\'The Holographic Excitation\'\', there is a blatant shout-out to Sir Terry Pratchett\'s \'\'Literature/{{Discworld}}\'\' books. Specifically, the \'\'Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld\'\' series, co-authored with prominent British scientists, in which Pratchett\'s fantasy world is used to mirror and illustrate developing scientific thought. In the books, the wizards of Unseen University (among them a rather nerdy type with glasses who affects a big baggy parka) accidentally create a bizarre pocket universe centered on a spherical world which orbits its sun. Stuck for what to do with it, it ends up gathering dust inside a protective glass sphere on somebody\'s desk. Meanwhile a geeky glasses-wearing scientist in a parka fires up holograms of Earth, planets and solar system to please his girlfriend. Leonard speculates that everything might just be one giant information-gathering hologram, being read by intelligences an unguessable distance away...
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* ** In \\\'\\\'The Holographic Excitation\\\'\\\', there is a blatant (well, fairly subtle) shout-out to Sir Terry Pratchett\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Discworld}}\\\'\\\' books. Specifically, the \\\'\\\'Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld\\\'\\\' series, co-authored with prominent British scientists, in which Pratchett\\\'s fantasy world is used to mirror and illustrate developing scientific thought. In the books, the wizards of Unseen University (among them a rather nerdy type with glasses who affects a big baggy parka) accidentally create a bizarre pocket universe centered on a spherical world which orbits its sun. Stuck for what to do with it, it ends up gathering dust inside a protective glass sphere on somebody\\\'s desk. Meanwhile a geeky glasses-wearing scientist in a parka fires up holograms of Earth, planets and solar system to please his girlfriend. Leonard speculates that everything might just be one giant information-gathering hologram, being read by intelligences an unguessable distance away...
