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01 Our Picture of The Universe

CHAPTER 1

OUR PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) 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,

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