RE: [ramakrishna] VML-4/15/00

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In Greek mythology a partial solution was given to this qn:

A demigod called Atlas is supposed to hold the earth on his shoulders,

himself standing in the nether world. There's a famous story between

Atlas and Hercules.

 

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> Some children were being examined. The examiner put the rather hard

> questions, and among them was this one: " Why does not the earth

> fall? " He wanted to evoke answers about gravitation. Most of the

> children could not answer at all; a few answered that it was

> gravitation or something. One bright little girl answered it by

> putting another question: " Where should it fall? " The question is

> nonsense. Where should the earth fall ? There is no falling or rising

> for the earth. In infinite space there is no up or down; that is only

> in the relative. Where is the going or coming for the infinite ?

> Whence should it come and whither should it go ?

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