1416: Pixels - Revision history

FaviFake: +Category:Animals; +Category:Turtles using HotCat

2025-07-28T12:57:37Z

+Category:Animals; +Category:Turtles using HotCat

FaviFake at 17:24, 25 February 2025

2025-02-25T17:24:44Z

FaviFake: /* Explanation */ what was that formatting?!

2025-02-25T16:49:14Z

‎Explanation: what was that formatting?!

42.book.addict at 17:21, 1 November 2024

2024-11-01T17:21:59Z

42.book.addict at 19:26, 23 October 2024

2024-10-23T19:26:47Z

172.69.43.226: /* Transcript */ hass

2024-09-22T19:48:06Z

‎Transcript: hass

1234231587678 at 19:12, 22 September 2024

2024-09-22T19:12:23Z

1234231587678 at 19:09, 22 September 2024

2024-09-22T19:09:34Z

FaviFake: added Category:What If? using HotCat

2023-07-24T14:49:20Z

added Category:What If? using HotCat

FaviFake: Undo revision 318703 by FaviFake (talk) Actually no that's a bit of a stretch

2023-07-24T14:31:15Z

Undo revision 318703 by FaviFake (talk) Actually no that's a bit of a stretch

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 | titletext = It's turtles all the way down.
 }}
-{{TOC}}
+{{TOC}}To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1416|original comic}}.
 ==Explanation==
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 ==Themes==
-*Below are all the themes relevant to cover all the images found when zooming in.
+Below are all the themes relevant to cover all the images found when zooming in, sorted in the same order as in the gallery: [[1416: Pixels/Images]]. Open the gallery in another window - zoom out and then you can see the pictures in this window as you read about them here below.  You can see thumbnail versions of each picture at the top of the theme sub-section.
 ===Turtles===

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 The origins of the turtle story are uncertain. It has been recorded since the mid 19th century, and may possibly date to the 18th. One recent version appears in {{W|Stephen Hawking}}'s 1988 book {{W|A Brief History of Time}}, which starts:
-:A well-known scientist (some say it was {{W|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," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"''
+{{Quote|A well-known scientist (some say it was {{W|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," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"|{{w|Stephen Hawking}}|1988}}
 Several {{w|World Turtle|ancient myths}}, dating back thousands of years, involve a turtle which supports the whole world, or a part of it, although it is usually just one turtle, not an infinite regression.  This is also repeated in {{w|Terry Pratchett}}'s {{w|Discworld}} novels, in which the world is supported by four elephants standing on the back of a single turtle called {{w|Great A'Tuin}}.

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Cueball hass stacked three turtles, and is about to put the fourth turtle on his pile. At the bottom right there is a small panel. Inside it is written:]
+:[Cueball has stacked three turtles, and is about to put the fourth turtle on his pile. At the bottom right there is a small panel. Inside it is written:]
 :Scroll to zoom

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 There is a picture of tiny particles, quite spaced out. These probably represent atoms, and given how distant they are, they may well be a gas.
-There follows a picture of a Bohr Model atom with point electrons surrounding a nucleus of protons and neutrons. The atom is a {{w|Carbon}} atom which is essential for all living matter and therefore for evolution. There is also a picture of what is probably a vibrating cosmic string fragment (a concept in {{w|string theory}}). Despite {{w|Werner Heisenberg|Heisenberg's}} {{w|Uncertainty Principle}}, zooming down to the string does not mean that the cartoon viewer has reached the "bottom" of the comic - zooming in on the loop will show a picture of string.
+There follows a picture of a Bohr Model atom with point electrons surrounding a nucleus of protons and neutrons. The atom is a {{w|Carbon}} atom which is essential for all living matter and therefore for evolution. There is also a picture of what is probably a vibrating cosmic string fragment (a concept in {{w|string theory}}). Despite {{w|Werner Heisenberg|Heisenberg}}'s {{w|uncertainty principle}}, zooming down to the string does not mean that the cartoon viewer has reached the "bottom" of the comic - zooming in on the loop will show a picture of string.
 ===Holism, Reductionism, Mu===

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