Never ceases to amaze me that Wikipedia has photographic illustrations for weird things. Like the concept of "turtles all the way down". Image source.
CentipedeFarrier 11 points 19 days ago
If it’s infinite, there isnt a top turtle, but there would be a point at which every turtle above breaks the sound barrier, then another point for the speed of light. According to what I understand about time travel and light speed, that might cause moving backward in time, so if thats all true, some of the turtles really far above the point at which they all move faster than light would end up taking their step forward weeks, months, years, even aeons before the bottom turtle hatched.
And that’s pretty neat. Infinities are fun.
Tar_alcaran 4 points 18 days ago
If it's Infinite turtles, there could be either a top turtle, a bottom turtle, or neither, depending on what kind of infinity it is!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 18 days ago
And name them George
NaibofTabr 3 points 19 days ago
"I’ll build my throne higher! I can and I will!
I’ll call some more turtles. I’ll stack ’em to heaven!
I need ’bout five thousand, six hundred and seven!"
southsamurai 2 points 19 days ago
The turtle moves
BeatTakeshi 2 points 19 days ago
Nice towertle
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If there was an infinite stack of turtles, and they all took a step forward at the same time, the top turtle would break the speed of light.
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