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Good Scientist, Bad Scientist
One day, a great scientist gone bad decides to wreak havoc on others in his profession. He has another scientist kidnapped, uses an evil formula that disables 4 of the good scientist's five senses: his sight, his smell, his taste, and his sense of touch. He then has him strapped to a bed very securely. He then says, 'I am going to place a single object in the center of this room with you. If you want to live, you will have something to tell me about the object when I return. Please do not insult my intelligence by telling me that it is an object, or an object that I placed in the room, or anything having to do with me, or the object's location for that matter. We both know it is an object, that I put it here, and that it is in the center of the room. You must therefore state a SCIENTIFIC FACT about the object.'
Before leaving though, he says: 'Silly me, I almost forgot...' (He then disables the good scientists hearing. Now he has none of his senses to work with). He returns after one hour, restores all of the scientist's senses, and says: 'So tell me something about the object professor.' The good scientist saves his own life with his answer, to the chagrin of the evil scientist.
What, though, could he have possibly said, being that he had no senses?
Before leaving though, he says: 'Silly me, I almost forgot...' (He then disables the good scientists hearing. Now he has none of his senses to work with). He returns after one hour, restores all of the scientist's senses, and says: 'So tell me something about the object professor.' The good scientist saves his own life with his answer, to the chagrin of the evil scientist.
What, though, could he have possibly said, being that he had no senses?
Answer
The good scientist simply said: 'It is a SCIENTIFIC FACT that the object you placed in the center of the room with me has MASS.'All OBJECTS have mass.
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