My Science Quiz Challenge

AV1611VET · Jun 23, 2026

You're sent back to 2000 without loss of knowledge and are in a classroom facing this test.

And you are told by your instructor to answer the questions truthfully and to the best of your knowledge:

1. Name the planets in order from the sun.
2. There are 118 elements on the periodic table. True or False?
3. Taking megadoses of vitamins reduces stress. True or False?
4. What percentage of our brain do we use?
5. Birds are a separate group of animals. True or False?

Here's the challenge:

If you answered truthfully and honestly, what grade would you expect the instructor to give you?

sjastro · Jun 23, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You're sent back to 2000 without loss of knowledge and are in a classroom facing this test.

And you are told by your instructor to answer the questions truthfully and to the best of your knowledge:

1. Name the planets in order from the sun.
2. There are 118 elements on the periodic table. True or False?
3. Taking megadoses of vitamins reduces stress. True or False?
4. What percentage of our brain do we use?
5. Birds are a separate group of animals. True or False?

Here's the challenge:

If you answered truthfully and honestly, what grade would you expect the instructor to give you?

I had another late delivery, explain how science is responsible for this.

jacks · Jun 23, 2026

Since I only use a portion of #4, I couldn't answer #1.
Giving myself the benefit of the doubt in the T/F and I'll assume I get 2 of them right.
That gives me 2 out of 5 which is 40% (Note: needed a calculated to figure that.)
So though I deserve an F, with grade inflation I think the instructor would give me a C-.

AV1611VET · Jun 23, 2026

jacks said:
Since I only use a portion of #4, I couldn't answer #1.
Giving myself the benefit of the doubt in the T/F and I'll assume I get 2 of them right.
That gives me 2 out of 5 which is 40% (Note: needed a calculated to figure that.)
So though I deserve an F, with grade inflation I think the instructor would give me a C-.

A+ for effort, my friend!

sjastro · Jun 23, 2026

Instead of going back to the year 2000 I go back to the day when I placed the order with Amazon.
The moral dilemma is should I castigate Amazon for the late delivery even though they had not processed the order at the time.

Will my trip back in time provide an explanation of how science is responsible for late Amazon deliveries?

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 23, 2026

The only challenge is trying to get AV to accept that information changes and thus science changes, and that's not an inherently bad thing at all.

sjastro · Jun 23, 2026

Going back into the past requires the laws of physics to prevent the formation of closed timelike curves that would allow macroscopic time travel to the past.
So when I go back in time and abuse Amazon staff for a late delivery they had not committed yet, will my actions lead to a positive outcome in the future?
Alas we hit the Chronology Protection Conjecture.

Chronology protection conjecture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

AV1611VET · Jun 23, 2026

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
The only challenge is trying to get AV to accept that information changes and thus science changes, and that's not an inherently bad thing at all.

You're certainly not going to get me to accept anything this way.

If you can't face the past, that's on you.

I'll bet if I asked a classic car buff how much horsepower a 1972 440 cubic inch, V8, 4-barrel Magnum Dodge Charger had, he answer right off.

Or at least come close.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 23, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You're certainly not going to get me to accept anything this way.

If you can't face the past, that's on you.

I'll bet if I asked a classic car buff how much horsepower a 1972 440 cubic inch, V8, 4-barrel Magnum Dodge Charger had, he answer right off.

Or at least come close.

That comment makes no sense and this challenge makes no sense. If I go back in time to 2000 and give answers to the questions with the knowledge as they stand in 2026, I would probably not get any sort of passing grade and the teacher would ask me what's going on with those answers.

The answers would be correct in 2026 but incorrect in 2000 because no-one has discovered those new answers yet.

And that somehow is a problem for science... why?

All information and facts is conditional to the period the information and facts are in. The information and facts in 2000 were correct for the year 2000 but is incorrect in 2026 because we know more. That's how science works: old information and facts are replaced with new information and facts. The same with a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago. New information and facts replace old information and facts.

And that's only a problem for you, and not for science.

AV1611VET · Jun 23, 2026

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
The answers would be correct in 2026 but incorrect in 2000 because no-one has discovered those new answers yet.

When is science going to catch up with the Bible?

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 23, 2026

AV1611VET said:
When is science going to catch up with the Bible?

Aren't you the one who says the Bible isn't a science book?

AV1611VET · Jun 23, 2026

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
Aren't you the one who says the Bible isn't a science book?

Good point taken.

Yttrium · Jun 26, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You're sent back to 2000 without loss of knowledge and are in a classroom facing this test.

And you are told by your instructor to answer the questions truthfully and to the best of your knowledge:

1. Name the planets in order from the sun.
2. There are 118 elements on the periodic table. True or False?
3. Taking megadoses of vitamins reduces stress. True or False?
4. What percentage of our brain do we use?
5. Birds are a separate group of animals. True or False?

Here's the challenge:

If you answered truthfully and honestly, what grade would you expect the instructor to give you?

1. Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
2. False
3. True
4. 100%
5. True

I expect an A! If I don't get an A I will politely explain why the teacher is wrong.

AV1611VET · Jun 26, 2026

Yttrium said:
1. Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
2. False
3. True
4. 100%
5. True

I expect an A! If I don't get an A I will politely explain why the teacher is wrong.

You would get an A (for the answers he expected, but you would have to be dishonest).

Because if you took that test today with those answers, you would get an F.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 26, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You would get an A (for the answers he expected, but you would have to be dishonest).

Because if you took that test today with those answers, you would get an F.

And that's a problem... why?

AV1611VET · Jun 26, 2026

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
And that's a problem... why?

You don't see setting aside honesty to get an A a problem?

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 26, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You don't see setting aside honesty to get an A a problem?

And what does that have to do with the idea of going back in time to 2000 and using newer information from 2026 to answer a quiz?

I don't even think you know what your own challenge is about.

Yttrium · Jun 26, 2026

AV1611VET said:
You would get an A (for the answers he expected, but you would have to be dishonest).

Because if you took that test today with those answers, you would get an F.

I was quite honest.

AV1611VET · Jun 26, 2026

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
And what does that have to do with the idea of going back in time to 2000 and using newer information from 2026 to answer a quiz?

Ask Yttrium that.

He got an A.

Warden_of_the_Storm said:
I don't even think you know what your own challenge is about.

Ya ... uh ... ya.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Jun 26, 2026

AV1611VET said:
Ask Yttrium that.

He got an A.

Ya ... uh ... ya.

Your statements and 'challenge' makes no sense. How is it dishonest if he gives answers that are correct to the year he's in?

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