Sunday, June 22, 2014

Chaos tacos

Did you know …

That if you rearrange the letters in “tacos,” you can spell “chaos”? It’s true.

“Hey!” you’re saying. “Hey, shithead, where’d that ‘h’ come from?!”

Ha ha! It might seem strange at first, but once I point it out the answer will be surprisingly obvious, even to someone who ends sentences with prepositions! You see, the “t” in “tacos” turned into the “h”! That’s how we could spell “chaos”!

T’s turn into h’s sometimes thanks to what scientists and mathetists call “quantum theory.” I’d explain quantum theory to you, but it’s one of those things that you change simply by observing it. Trying to describe it would probably make it completely freak out. If I were to say, for instance, that the t becomes the h through the spontaneous migration of dark pixels across your screen, that’d be true. But it would only be true because I said so, and in saying so I would limit what else the t might have been or done. It’s not entirely unlike Schrodinger’s old cat; if you insist on opening the box, you’re either going to have to deal with a dead cat, or you’ll have to deal with an angry cat who has been trapped all day in a box. You would have been better off leaving the box alone, and the same goes for chaos tacos!

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