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"I share the view of Pythagoras that the world is number. The ultimate substrate of the universe is math. There's no way to test that - it's pure metaphysical speculation."
- Bart Kosko
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| Sol | ||
| Familiar name for our own sun. |
Now ubiquitous in science fiction, this is the first instance of this familiar name being used.
| Overhead the milky way glistened, and we saw the light of more stars than we had ever seen upon Earth. Directly behind us lay the Sun, a great flaming ball that was blinding. A little to the left, appearing as large though not as bright as old Sol, was Mother Earth. Near her hovered the good old moon, now only a darker blot against the dark side of the planet. In several directions, above and below, we could see the brilliant stars. They did not twinkle, but looked clearly back at us. |
| Technovelgy from Out of Void,
by L.F. Stone. Published by Amazing Stories in 1929 Additional resources -
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Among the many examples, here's one from Troubled Star (1952) by George O. Smith:
From Philip K. Dick's Shell Game (1954):
From Cities in Flight (1957) by James Blish:
We put a barytrine field around Earth and tow the planet to some star similar to Sol.
The beam carried it from the Sol System here, where, because of a mechanical error, a meteor penetrated the protection screen and the ship crashed.
It consisted of two type Go stars and a red dwarf, almost a double for the Sol-Alpha Centauri system.
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