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Old 06-01-2006, 08:20 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by MoriartyL
It's a story Stephen Hawking told, if I remember correctly. An old lady believed the world rested on the back of a giant turtle. So he asked, "What is the turtle resting on?". And she said, "You can't fool me, young man. It's turtles all the way down.". Or something like that.

That's the one, though I first encountered it in Terry Pratchett's discworld, where the same question got asked at one point.


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