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John R. Lunise
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On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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Surei Doushi are you saying my best friend is from another universe?
Surei Doushi things are weird but not THAT weird.....
Surei Doushi really though, if it weren't for these chocobo things actually existing I'd say it was a prank. a really bad one. the horse article on wikipedia really hasn't changed aside from the name of the animal.

John R. Lunise It would be impossible to maintain such a prank, as much as that feels like the most likely solution, so we must look for answers that are less probable and yet do not contradict the evidence.

Surei Doushi we also have to make sure we're not crazy enough to be thrown into the hospital.
Surei Doushi I'm keeping my eyes open for more clues. I want to know the truth. if I put too much faith in something that's wrong, I might miss it.

John R. Lunise Science revises theories to fit evidence, must therefore always seek new evidence, and must always be open to the possibility that it is wrong.

Surei Doushi that's true.
Surei Doushi we shouldn't give up trying to find the answers even if what we're finding isn't making sense. it just means we don't have all the pieces yet
Surei Doushi for what it's worth I'm happy you're with us professor

John R. Lunise Bear in mind, however, we can never know; we can only arrive at a theory, however much we might seek.
John R. Lunise I myself an grateful to have students and colleagues willing to listen to my ramblings and entertain them.

Surei Doushi that's true. I mean we're still learning about the human body and we've been studying THAT since antiquity.
Surei Doushi something about the way you talk about things makes them seem less scary.

John R. Lunise Fear comes from a lack of understanding, a lack of knowledge. That is why we must continue to seek answers.