Identifiera en kort historia om en vägg på en planet vid kanten av ett litet universum

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Jag letar efter en historia om ett litet universum som är mindre än vårt solsystem. Den har en stjärna och en planet, och planetens omlopp ligger på universums kant. Planets enda ansikte pekar på sin sol hela tiden. Världen har en väldigt lång mur runt sin skymningsomkrets.

En civilisation växer på planeten. Civilisans härskare - nyfiken på vad som ligger utanför väggen - uppdrag för en stege som ska byggas upp på väggen. Han klättrar upp stegen och går mot mörkret bortom skymningen ovanpå väggen. Han fortsätter att gå och

comes back to his original location. Anything that goes beyond the wall at the edge of the universe is reflected back on itself.

Jag tror att det börjar med ett citat som detta: "Många och konstiga är de universum som finns som bubblor i skummet längs flodens tid."

    
uppsättning RichS 06.04.2017 09:27

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Låter som Arthur C. Clarkes Mörkens vägg :

Many and strange are the universes that drift like bubbles in the foam upon the River of Time. Some – a very few – move against or athwart its current; and fewer still are those that lie forever beyond its reach, knowing nothing of the future or the past. Shervane’s tiny cosmos was not one of these: its strangeness was of a different order. It held one world only – the planet of Shervane’s race – and a single star, the great sun Trilorne that brought it life and light. Shervane knew nothing of night, for Trilorne was always high above the horizon, dipping near it only in the long months of winter.

So he walked on: and when presently an icy hand fastened itself upon his heart, he did not pause as a man of lesser courage would have done. Without flinching, he watched that shockingly familiar landscape rise around him, until he could see the plain from which his journey had started, and the great stairway itself, and at last Brayldon’s anxious, waiting face.

For a moment he had a sudden, inexpressibly poignant vision of another stairway, watched by another Shervane, falling in identical ruins on the far side of the Wall. But that, he realised, was a foolish thought: for none knew better than he that the Wall possessed no other side.

    
svaret ges 06.04.2017 09:34
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Detta är "Mörkens vägg" av Arthur C. Clarke, som tidigare diskuterats i den här frågan.

En sammanfattning från Alex Kasmans Mathematical Fiction-webbplats:

In a universe consisting of one star and one planet, there is a mysterious impenetrable wall surrounding the entire planet in the deep freezing southlands. Two men, one with money, the other with building skills, engage in a long-term program to scale the wall and find out what's on the other side. The answer turns out to be mathematical. And rather upsetting.

    
svaret ges 06.04.2017 09:35