History Fanfic / TheManyWorldsInterpretation

This is a crossover fiction by Creator/AAPessimal and brings together the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. Specifically, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld''.

* TheEarthPrimeTheory: the Roundworld in this tale is one where the cast of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' exist for real, as opposed to being actors and actresses in a TV show. It is hinted to be an alternative Earth and not the Roundworld Prime of Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld novels. But then, the Wizards have created, potentially, a ''lot'' of alternative earths. And perhaps the ''true'' prime for all manifestations of Earth is the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''....
* EmotionEater: the peril that piggybacks to Pasadena with the visiting Discworlders is the Shadowing Lemma, a dread, if dysfunctional, multidimensional entity that lives on the brain energies of mathematical geniuses. It sets up a trap that excites and enthrals Sheldon Cooper - and draws him in.

* GravityIsOnlyATheory: Johanna has to argue with, er, a student from Alaska [[note]] named, wholly coincidentally, as Miss Palin[[/note]] who has fundamentalist religious leanings and believes in creationism rather than the mere ''theory'' of evolution.

* ReassignedToAntarctica; the astronauts on the International Space Station, Dimitri and Massimono, know better than to report UFO sightings. Nome, Alaska and Novaya Zemlya, Siberia, figure as their next ground postings should they do.

* SchizoTech: * The city of Ankh-Morpork as seen by the visiting Californians. It has a supercomputer (HEX) way in advance of anything on Earth but no electricity, TV, petrol engines, or ''gonnes''... meanwhile visiting Discworlders in Pasadena/Los Angeles find technological sophistication - but no awareness of magic. The visiting Assassin realises how reliance on machinery to do the work has rendered the people largely less muscular and a lot less physically able than people on her own world.
* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: As with the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' and indeed ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', you can expect lots and lots of them to the point where the work ends up ReferenceOverdosed and may require its own ShoutOut page. These are a randomly mined sampling:
** AncestralWeapon: Aragorn's sword Narsil is referenced when Johanna politely stops Howard from touching her weapons belt. It turns out her machete has been in the family for generations; her great-grandmother personally killed four [[Film/{{Zulu}} Zulus]] with it during a battle. [[note]] serious {{Badass}} tendencies run in the female Smith-Rhodes line.[[/note]]
** Series/DoctorWho: The Travelling Engine is likened to a Tardis[[note]] By Howard Wolowitz[[/note]]. HEX makes a gnomic remark concerning Time Lords and that they may just exist.
** ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' - the Barone family appear to do a cameo appearance. They evidently occupy the same phase of the Multiverse, albeit on the East Coast.
** ''Series/RedDwarf'' - Bernadette's "pinball smile".
** ''Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' - lots and lots. Penny ends up in space frantically trying to hitch a lift; the plot rationale involves - ultimately - getting humanity off a doomed planet; Music/TheEagles ''Journey of the Sourceror'' is referenced. As indeed is a computer that can hum like Music/PinkFloyd. A GenreSavvy spaceman aboard the International Space Station searches for a towel to cover the window with, so that he can blot out the sight of an impossible thing happening before breakfast.
** MarvelComics: various characters and stories are referenced. For instance, the [[Music/BlueOysterCult Vera Gemini]] arc of Comicbook/TheDefenders.
** ComicBook/TheSandman: Neil Gaiman's interpretation of DEATH is referenced, but does not appear in this form.
** ''WestSideStory'': An LAPD cop with the unfortunate name of Krupke is introduced. He has colleagues called [[TopCat Dibble]], [[SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]], and [[{{McCloud}} Mounted Officer McLeod]]
* ShipToShipCombat: inadvertently invoked; a long-time fan quit this fic in vocal disgust because of the author's use of the controversial(but canonical) "Shamy" shipping for Sheldon and Amy. WordOfGod is that he hopes the missing reader will come back...
* [[ShownTheirWork Shown The Research]]: as with TBBT, the author took pains to get the maths and physics at least approximately right. The background equations on the whiteboard are spoken, usually by Sheldon Cooper, and were chosen to be correct in context. As with the actor, the author takes it on trust they're relevant but hardly pretends to understand!
* SignatureScent: Just as native Ankh-Morporkians don't notice the smell of their city until [[TheNoseKnows nasally traumatised visitors]] point it out to them, people resident in Greater Los Angeles are oblivious to the all-pervading smell of internal combustion engines and exhaust fumes. That is, until visitors come along from a civilization yet to evolve petrol-driven engines. Two sets of people are given the relevant culture shock.

--> (Penny)Er...sweetie... it isn't necessary to weigh them up by hand to work out cup size....
* StalkerWithACrush: arguably Leslie Winkle, who is distrusted by both Bernadette and Penny[[note]]She famously ''coitussed'' both Howard and Leonard[[/note]] and who makes unsubtle attempts to get off with Ponder Stibbons.

* TurtlePower: Raj the devout Hindu believes absolutely in Great A'Tuin the world-turtle. It's the founding point of Hindu cosmology, after all. However, Dr Koothrapali the academic cosmologist has difficulties fitting the discworld onto the standard Hertzsprung-Russell curve.
* UnfortunateNames: when sorting out a little problem with would-be street muggers, Johanna encounters members of the Los Angeles Police Department called [[WestSideStory Krupke]], [[WesternAnimation/TopCat Dibble]] and [[Series/SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]]. Apparently there is also an Inspector Series/{{Columbo}} in the murder squad, and a mounted policeman called Officer [=McLeod=].

* VirtualSoundtrack: available on the author's account on You Tube. always assuming fucking YT haven't butchered it with incessant bloody deletions. Search for YT user [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEO8domx9Lb34st1kGAOtR15rvCeqmPTI Pragmatist23]].

* WhiteGangbangers: the expat South Africans Johanna meets in Pasadena. To her horror she realises they are stuck in TheApartheidEra, but not before a certain Ms. Janine Davis has clocked her in their company. A terse interview with Caltech Human Resources follows the next day.

* YearInsideHourOutside: As the days and weeks pass in Roundworld, Johanna wonders about how to explain returning to Ankh-Morpork, in winter, several apparent minutes after she departed - with a sudden overnight Californian suntan. [[spoiler: this is indeed remarked on when Johanna makes a flying visit home.]]

This is a crossover fiction by Creator/AAPessimal and brings together the ''{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. Specifically, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld''.

* TheEarthPrimeTheory: the Roundworld in this tale is one where the cast of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' exist for real, as opposed to being actors and actresses in a TV show. It is hinted to be an alternative Earth and not the Roundworld Prime of Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld novels. But then, the Wizards have created, potentially, a ''lot'' of alternative earths. And perhaps the ''true'' prime for all manifestations of Earth is the ''{{Discworld}}''....

* NaughtyBirdwatching: Raj K and the boys are giving Ponder Stibbons from the ''{{Discworld}}'' practical education in how astronomy works on a spherical world. They set a telescope up on the roof of 2311 North Los Robles. Policemen visiting for a different reason warn them to make sure it only points at the sky, guys. A friendly cop advises them about the woman in the apartment block opposite who undresses in front of an open window, and even tells them which window. ("You get what I'm sayin', guys?") Howard Wolowitz assures him the telescope will go ''nowhere near'' that window. Then he goes back to the apartment to find a pair of binoculars.

* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: As with the ''{{Discworld}}'' and indeed ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', you can expect lots and lots of them to the point where the work ends up ReferenceOverdosed and may require its own ShoutOut page. These are a randomly mined sampling:

** MarvelComics: various characters and stories are referenced. For instance, the [[BlueOysterCult Vera Gemini]] arc of Comicbook/TheDefenders.

* VirtualSoundtrack: available on the author's account on You Tube. Search for YT user [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEO8domx9Lb34st1kGAOtR15rvCeqmPTI Pragmatist23]].

* CelebrityParadox: Many. But Creator/SirTerryPratchett is not (yet) a novelist in this world: he still works for the British Nuclear Power Agency writing reassuring press releases after little operating difficulties happen in power plants. Howard Wolowitz comes across his press releases and recognises them as works of true genius in applied engineering. [[note]]This was indeed Terry Pratchett's job. He claims to have been relieved to get out and to be able to write more life-affirming works of fiction. [[/note]]

This is a crossover fiction by Creator/AAPessimal and brings together the ''{{Discworld}}'' and ''TheBigBangTheory''. Specifically, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld''.

* TheEarthPrimeTheory: the Roundworld in this tale is one where the cast of ''TheBigBangTheory'' exist for real, as opposed to being actors and actresses in a TV show. It is hinted to be an alternative Earth and not the Roundworld Prime of Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld novels. But then, the Wizards have created, potentially, a ''lot'' of alternative earths. And perhaps the ''true'' prime for all manifestations of Earth is the ''{{Discworld}}''....

* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]: As with the ''{{Discworld}}'' and indeed ''TheBigBangTheory'', you can expect lots and lots of them to the point where the work ends up ReferenceOverdosed and may require its own ShoutOut page. These are a randomly mined sampling:

* CarMeetsHouse: In the ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' cameo appearance. Sheldon Cooper, Penny and HEX crash the Travelling Engine through the front wall of a certain house in Lynwood, Long Island, New York, in a manner suspiciously like the ELR episode where Frank and Marie garage their car on top of Ray and Debra's couch. It turns out that HEX and Sheldon have interfered with the timeline and done what Frank and Marie were poised to do and would have done a few minutes later... [[note]]Once free of Sheldon's interference, HEX judiciously alters the timeline so that there was no trace of them there. The front wall still comes down anyway. Some things are fated by Narrative Causality. [[/note]]

* PrecisionFStrike: In Johanna's case, a Precision V-Strike. [[note]] Use of the Afrikaans word ''Voetsaak!" is frowned upon in polite company.[[/note]] HEX is also provoked, by Sheldon Cooper, to a terse ++Oh, Shit!++

* BunnyBoiler: arguably Leslie Winkle, who is distrusted by both Bernadette and Penny[[note]]She famously ''coitussed'' both Howard and Leonard[[/note]] and who makes unsubtle attempts to get off with Ponder Stibbons.

** The story also expands a scene from TBBT, where Leonard fires up a hologram of the world to delight Penny, and speculates it might all just be a gigantic hologram being monitored by beings standing outside our Universe, maybe a long-term experiment. Which is nearer to the truth than Leonard could imagine. [[spoiler: especially when people from the society that ''created'' the Roundworld Universe and keep it as a long-running experiment they monitor drop in to check it out on the ground]].

* BigFriendlyDog: Johanna's pet Ridgebacks. When they come to California for walkies, the first person they freak out, iwth unerring doggy instinct, is Sheldon Cooper. Even though when called for, these can be two examples of the AngryGuardDog, Sheldon eventually discovered they'd rather drown the victim in gallons of doggy spittle as they're so happy to make new friends.

--> (Penny)Er...sweetie... it isn't necessary to weight them up by hand to work out cup size....

** The story also expands a scene from TBBT, where Leonard fires up a hologram of the world to delight Penny, and speculates it might all just be a gigantic hologram being monitored by beings standing outside our Universe, maybe a long-term experiment. Which is nearer to the truth than Leonard could imagine.

* RecursiveReality: The Caltech physicists, both theoretical and research, are keen to explore questions of how the Big Bang happened that created the Universe. Ponder Stibbons and Johanna Smith-Rhodes both know the secret. [[spoiler In fact, they've met the man who initiated the Big Bang - Dean Henry of Unseen University, who put his hand into raw firmament and "wiggled it about a bit just to see what happened".]] But as the Ultimate Truth is so embarrassing, both conspire not to let the Caltech gang, especially Sheldon, know the awful reality.

* NotThatkindOfMage: Ponder realises the Caltech crew are steeped in what to them is fantasy fiction. He realises their perception of wizards only occasionally chimes with his reality. But using his knowledge of actual wizardry, he still manages to win every game of Mystic Warlords of Ka'a. And he finds a winning use for "Enchanted Bunny''.

* BigFriendlyDog: Johanna's pet Ridgebacks. When they come to California for walkies, the first person they freak out, iwth unerring doggy instinct, is Sheldon Cooper. However, when called for, these can be two examples of the AngryGuardDog. It's just that, as Sheldon eventually discovered, they'd rather drown the victim in gallons of doggy spittle as they're so happy to make new friends.

* HomeworldEvacuation: In canon, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' books believe this is inevitable and will occur sooner rather than later. The challenge for Discworld's wizards is to get humanity on Earth prepared for the moment it has to leave a dying planet and colonise the stars. (no later than the middle 2200's). In this version of Roundworld, insights made by eight intelligences operating around Caltech, Pasadena, in the early 2000's will be key to humanity's survival. Therefore Sheldon Cooper in particular has to be kept alive to make his key realisations, and all eight have to be steered in the right directions...

This is a crossover fiction by Creator/AAPessimal and brings together the ''{{Discworld}}'' and ''TheBigBangTheory''. specifically, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld''.

Add HEX, the supercomputer, who is governed by [[''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' the Prime Directive of the Roundworld Project]]: to get human beings thinking and working about the need to get off the planet and colonise Space in large numbers. And to nurture those brilliant scientific intellects who will contribute to the space colony mission. But as with every occasion where the Wizards have entered the Roundworld to intervene, Something is out there trying to stop them...

* HomeworldEvacuation: In canon, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' books believe this is inevitable and will occur sooner rather than later. The challenge for Discworld's wizards is to get humanity on Earth prepared for the moment it has to leave a dying planet and colonise the stars. (no later than the middle 2200's). In this version of Roundworld, insights made by eight intelligences operating around Caltech, Pasadena, in the early 2000's will be key to humanity's survival. Therefore Sheldon Cooper in particular has to be kept alive to make his key realisations, and all eight have to be steered in the right directions...