If people don't think deeper or work to educate themselves, they'll be stuck believing impossible and outlandish things - like, you know, the world being held up by turtles. This all fits with the "Strange World" themes of people stubbornly thinking they know something - such as Jaeger's faith in a world on the other side of the mountains, or Searcher's devotion to farming the harmful Pando plant - unaware that there is much more to discover and learn.
"But it's turtles all the way down!"Īs far as pop culture is concerned, up until now the theory's most successful personification has come in " Yertle the Turtle," the anti-authoritarian children's book published in 1950 by Dr. Seuss. 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. 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. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. "A well-known scientist ( some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. In his 1988 bestseller " A Brief History of Time," Stephen Hawking seemingly renewed the theory for the modern age with his own anecdote:
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