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Encyclopedia > Placet

Placet is a fictional planet that appeared in the Science Fictional story Placet is a Crazy Place by Fredric Brown.


It rotates in a figure eight pattern around two stars, Argyle I and Argyle II, moving faster than sound. It is the only planet that can eclipse itself twice at the same time, run into itself every 40 hours and chase itself out of sight.


This is made possible by the fact that Argyle I is normal matter and Argyle II is contraterrene or negative matter. Half way between them is a field where light is slowed down to the speed of sound. This field also affects the brains of human beings, resulting in extremely vivid visual hallucinations. Touch is unaffected.


This is complicated by the fact that the planet is composed of both ordainry and heavy matter. The core is made of this collapsed, heavy matter, giving the planet a gravity three quarters that of Earth. Animal life composed of this heavy matter lives on the core.


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Placet Dispute Resolution – Mediation and Conflict Resolution Services (0 words)
Placet Dispute Resolution is based in Toronto, Canada and provides a range of dispute resolution services, with an emphasis on mediation and mediation skills training, to clients throughout North America.
Placet’s mediation process develops and maintains an environment in which all parties can feel comfortable freely communicating their needs and goals.
At Placet, we believe that the best person to make important decision about your life and your business is you.
Exequatur (1188 words)
The Regium Placet really dates from the great Western Schism, which lasted from the pontificate of Urban VI to the Council of Constance and the election of Martin V (1378-1417).
Civil authorities felt bound to adopt the same precautionary measure, though they did not attribute such a power to themselves as a right attached to their office; apparently its use was discontinued when, after the schism, Martin V condemned the Regium Placet in his Constitution "Quod antidota" (1418).
In the fifteenth century, however, it was revived in Portugal by King John II and claimed by him as a right inherent in the crown.
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