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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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| Ball and Hammer Ship | ||
| Spaceship comprised of two sections connected by a shaft. |
| "As you probably saw when you were moving in to come aboard, the Class 4J is ball-and-hammer ship.
" ... A sphere thirty meters in diameter, connected by two slim shafts a hundred meters each in length to a rhomboid-shape that was the ship's thrust unit, some five meters in diameter at it's thickest and looking like a large child's spinning top, pivoted on two wires that clamped it at the middle. This was the "hammer". The ship, proper, was the "ball". |
| Technovelgy from Dorsai!,
by Gordon R. Dickson. Published by Ace Books in 1960 Additional resources -
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