{"product_id":"9780387989167","title":"The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDewdney, A.K.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Copernicus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-10-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780387989167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4613-0199-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 247\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45989242405004,"sku":"9780387989167","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780387989167.jpg?v=1775763638","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780387989167","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}