Identifique uma pequena história sobre uma parede em um planeta à beira de um pequeno universo

14

Estou procurando uma história sobre um pequeno universo menor que o nosso Sistema Solar. Tem uma estrela e um planeta, e a órbita do planeta está à beira do universo. O único rosto do planeta aponta para o seu sol em todos os momentos. O mundo tem um muro muito alto em torno da circunferência do crepúsculo.

Uma civilização cresce no planeta. O governante da civilização - curioso sobre o que está além do muro - pede que uma escada seja construída na parede. Ele sobe a escada e caminha em direção à escuridão além do crepúsculo no topo da parede. Ele continua andando e

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

Acho que começa com uma citação como esta: "Muitos e estranhos são os universos que existem como bolhas na espuma ao longo do rio do tempo."

    
por RichS 06.04.2017 / 09:27

2 respostas

Soa como o The Wall of Darkness de Arthur C. Clarke :

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.

    
06.04.2017 / 09:34

Isso é "O Muro das Trevas" , de Arthur C. Clarke, como discutido anteriormente em esta questão.

Um resumo do site de Alex Kasman's Mathematical Fiction:

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.

    
06.04.2017 / 09:35