Footprints in the Windsm # 1544–tutus all the way down
Footprints in the Windsm # 1544
Many of us know the old story: an Easterner and Westerner are talking about the foundations of the earth. The Easterner maintains that the earth is supported on the back of a large elephant. What supports the elephant? asks the Westerner. A turtle, is the reply. What supports the turtle? Another turtle; from there it is turtles all the way down.
But what few of us have heard, till now, is that the young daughter of the Westerner was listening, and told her mother the last was “tutus all the way down.”
Well now. Really: now. In quantum science, it turns out that the earth is supported not by any thing: there are after all no things, no particles always present. Rather, all shifts back and forth between energy and mass. E=mc2, remember? So the world, the universe, is one big cosmic dance.
And what better to wear to a dance than your tutu?
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