[meteorite-list] OT: cosmology

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:01 2004
Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C8698E5998_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>

Hi All,

On the subject of cosmological models, I'm reminded of a humorous story in
Stephen Hawking's _A Brief History of Time_ -- right at the beginning of the
book, if I'm not mistaken. A famous astronomer, after giving a lecture, is
told
by an elderly lady attending that his cosmology is all wrong. That the
world
in fact rests on the back of a giant tortoise. When the astronomer asks
what
the tortoise stands on, she replied, "You're very clever, young man, very
clever.
But it's turtles all the way down."

Best,
Rob
Received on Tue 05 Feb 2002 04:53:28 PM PST