Category Archives: April Fools

Q: Will time travel ever be invented?

Physicist: It already has!  Or rather, it already will be. Once time travel has/will have been invented, you’d think that said inventor could just go back in time and show off their invention, or give it to some ancestor (or … Continue reading

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Q: Will we ever discover a completely new color?

Physicist: Although not common, completely new, novel colors are found from time to time. There’s a vast conspiracy of optometrists and ophthalmologists who will try to convince you that our three types of cone cells somehow limit our vision, in a … Continue reading

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Q: Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? By “we” I mean humans.

Person: No.  Not at all.  Don’t give it a second thought. Behind every great triumph in artificial intelligence is a human being, who frankly should be feared more than the machine they created.  Most ancient and literal was the The … Continue reading

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Q: How does one attain an understanding of everything?

Metatem, High Chair of Truscience: The true path to enlightenment, born of the enlightenment, is obviously Truscience.  Truscience replaces the “old science”, which is full of complicated symbols that no one understands, crazy stories about ancient lizard monsters killed by … Continue reading

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Q: Is there a scientific conspiracy?

Physicist: Obviously. Science started in the 1750’s when a cadre of ultra-wealthy nobles decided to use their extreme means to build complex and bewildering devices for the express purpose of, as Mikhail V. Lomonosov put it (in Russian), “… the … Continue reading

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Q: Is it possible to have a completely original thought?

Physicist: Nope!  At least, not for the last 27 years. The last truly, verifiably original thought was had by Kjersti Skramstad of Oslo, in October of 1987.  She reported her insight immediately, as all original thinkers do, and since then there’s been … Continue reading

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