Tricerasaurus Rex

Sometimes, we are so limited in our thinking, in the years of experience that tell us what can and cannot be.

Did you know that there is no such thing as a Tricerasaurus Rex?  I have never read about such a beast, and I am a paleo-nerd.  There are bigger paleo-nerds out there, but I revel in my paleo-geekness.

So, when a friend’s child told me how great a Tricerasaurus Rex was, I very kindly (and gently and condescendingly) informed him that there was never such a beast.

“Yes, there is.  He has the head of a Triceratops and the body of a T-Rex.  He’s the most powerful dinosaur in the world.”

Poor child…  Some day, his dream will be crushed.  Poor child…

“He’s the most powerful one I’ve ever made!”

Online.

You’re an idiot, Ric.

You see, a Tricerasaurus Rex lives not just in the imagination of this child but, apparently, in some online game that lets you mash dinosaurs together.

So, you see, we never know as much as we think we do.  The very young don’t get caught up in this kind of restrictive thinking, so, in their world, the only impossible things are those which an adult kindly points out as being impossible.

At the sub-atomic level, there is no inherent, intrinsic quality to anything.  The only impossible things are those which the observer brings with themselves to the act of observation.