Turtles All The Way Down
by Ralf Rohner
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Turtles All The Way Down
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Ralf Rohner
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Good stories are told for generations in many different versions and the turtle story is one of them. Its origins are unclear, but it has been recorded since the mid 19th century, and may possibly date to the 18th. Therefore, chances are that you have heard this one before. One recent version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time:
A well-known scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
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October 27th, 2017
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