{"id":332,"date":"2020-01-17T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/?p=332"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:34:38","slug":"a-depiction-of-a-section-of-the-long-earth-as-described-in-the-sci-fi-book-by-the-same-name-by-terry-pratchett-and-stephen-baxter-as-if-viewed-through-a-crystal-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2020\/01\/17\/a-depiction-of-a-section-of-the-long-earth-as-described-in-the-sci-fi-book-by-the-same-name-by-terry-pratchett-and-stephen-baxter-as-if-viewed-through-a-crystal-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"A depiction of a section of &#8220;The Long Earth&#8221; as described in the sci-fi book by the same name by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, as if viewed through a crystal ball."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ifPbxJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-333\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00-1024x686.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00-768x514.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00-448x300.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/01\/2020-01-17_09-15-00.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A depiction of a section of &#8220;The Long Earth&#8221; as described in the sci-fi book by the same name by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, as if viewed through a crystal ball.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The &#8220;Long Earth&#8221; is a name given to a possibly infinite series of parallel worlds that are similar to Earth, which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a &#8220;Stepper&#8221;. The &#8220;close&#8221; worlds are almost identical to &#8220;our&#8221; Earth (referred to as &#8220;Datum Earth&#8221;), while others differ in greater and greater details.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to view a larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Long Earth&#8221; is a name given to a possibly infinite series of parallel worlds that are similar to Earth, which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a &#8220;Stepper&#8221;. The &#8220;close&#8221; worlds are almost identical to &#8220;our&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2020\/01\/17\/a-depiction-of-a-section-of-the-long-earth-as-described-in-the-sci-fi-book-by-the-same-name-by-terry-pratchett-and-stephen-baxter-as-if-viewed-through-a-crystal-ball\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,97,49,98,95,94,93],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lensball","tag-lensballphotography","tag-multiverse","tag-scifiartwork","tag-stephenbaxter","tag-terrypratchett","tag-thelongearth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}