He walked in the solid world, but half dreaming.
So, in that solid world of darkness we went creeping down on the light.
I was watching my nice, solid, normal world fragmenting about me.
He no longer seemed part of the solid, real world, but rather a wraith somehow visible in the daylight.
The solid world exists, its laws do not change.
I'd lived my life on the shore, in the solid world of law, and I was tired of it.
A moment later, the last planet in the catalogue vanished from beneath them and the solid world resolved itself again.
But it was not this slow wondering that made the solid world recede from her.
They say it's the only planet beyond Mars that is a small solid world like the inner ones.
People living in the solid, mechanical world of 1901 simply could not understand or experience a quantum universe.