Discworld gods appears in "", where he is inadvertently responsible for a lot of confusion. The Goddess of Shoes. She has a small following that gathers in the Temple of Small Gods and worships the Sacred Lace of Hyperopia. Mentioned in "Reaper Man" and "Discworld Noir". Hyperopia is the defect of vision commonly called farsightedness (American English) or longsightedness (British English). The Goddess of Interminable Opera. She is one of the many gods and goddesses recognised in the Temple of Small Gods. Mentioned in "Discworld Noir". Nuggan is the locally worshipped monotheistic and omnipotent God of Borogravia, but elsewhere he is known
What Is Life? as a highly ordered process, but which is caused by random movement of atoms or molecules. If the number of atoms is reduced, the behaviour of a system becomes more and more random. He states that life greatly depends on order and that a naïve physicist may assume that the master code of a living organism has to consist of a large number of atoms. In chapter II and III, he summarizes what was known at this time about the hereditary mechanism. Most importantly, he elaborates the important role mutations play in evolution. He concludes that the carrier of hereditary