{"id":2529,"date":"2014-11-02T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:52:27","slug":"totally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"Totally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. To explain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsince every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation\u00e2\u20ac\u201devery sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic\u00c2\u00a0and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.<\/p>\n

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.<\/p>\n

Trin Tragula\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor that was his name\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Have some sense of\u00c2\u00a0proportion!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust to show her.<\/p>\n

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.<\/p>\n

To Trin Tragula\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved\u00c2\u00a0conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. 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