Turtles all the way down
In the book, a brief history of time by Stephen W. Hawking, the writer makes use of pictures showing turtles standing on the back of each other, though in a witty way the writer tries to prove a point that in one way or the other, one living or none living thing needs the other to survive. In the whole first chapter of the book, the writer the writer brings out various ideas from different people of what each and every thinks about the millennia.
The changes that have taken place, and the various ideas can be seen right from the start of the book when an elderly lady attending a lecture is not satisfied with the explanation given explaining that the earth indeed do go round the sun (Shortland, 291). In the third chapter some scientific discoveries are discussed, with the greatest of all being that all the living matter are made up of tiny constituents. There are also four main forces that controls the universe which are gravity, electromagnetic force and sub nuclear integration. (Shortland, 117).
In the last half of the book the writer talks of the research taking place, the outcome of the research, it also shows the relationship between science, and the effect it has on the day-to-day life. The major one being the explanation indicating that nothing on earth can escape the dominant power of gravity
The last section of the book brings together the four major forces to become one , the book makes all the readers even with no scientific background to understand the relationship between science and the day to day life with ease. Work Cited
Shortland, G. (1997). Turtles all the way down. Dublin: Poolbeg.
