tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post7058968241204527123..comments2023-10-04T11:35:50.986-04:00Comments on Out of the Jungle: Storage FacilitiesJames Milleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368391001719650329noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post-8283075560639178432007-01-07T11:43:00.000-05:002007-01-07T11:43:00.000-05:00Stack space is, sadly, finite, but librarians can ...Stack space is, sadly, finite, but librarians can dream! Terry Pratchett, the British satirist, posits a huge library of magic books at his Unseen University on the Discworld. The library is so large that it creates its own gravitational field and distorts space-time to form the L-space, where both space and time can expand infinitely. From the handy website www.lspace.org, here is a quote from The Discworld Companion:<br /><br />Even big collections of ordinary books distort space and time, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned second-hand bookshop, one of those that has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves that end in little doors that are surely too small for a full sized human to enter.<br /><br />The relevant equation is Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Mass distorts space into polyfractal L-space, in which Everywhere is also Everywhere Else.<br /><br />All libraries are connected in L-space by the bookwormholes created by the strong space-time distortions found in any large collection of books. Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact - because it amounts to time travel.Betsy McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824582240163409553noreply@blogger.com