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The Little Man in the Tower
INTRODUCTION
W hat kind of world do you live in?
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A world of solid ground with people and trees, oceans with clouds above
it and, higher still, the enormous emptiness of space?
Are you one of the billions of people in that world?
If you answer "yes" to those questions, then you are mistaken!
If you were able to answer "yes" to them, then that means that throughout
the course of your life you have probably ignored a most important truth.
The fact is, you do not live in the kind of world described above at all. In
your world, there is no distance of even a few meters, let alone of billions of
kilometers or galaxies light years away. Actually you live in a very small
enclosed space—in a tiny, locked room at the top of a giant tower. You have
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