01-04-2025, 11:10 AM
An anonymous correspondent has pointed out to me that:
a) Season one of Blackadder first aired in the summer of 1983;
b) the reading of EVA "cheyqok" as a reference to Blackadder as "che c*ck", i.e. "that pr*ck", relies on the specific phonetic values assigned to Voynich Mss. glyphs by the EVA transcription alphabet, which was created in the late 1990's,
Based on those paltry data points, my correspondent claims that this constitutes proof not only that the Voynich Mss. is a modern forgery, but is also proof that time travel is possible and will one day be created, his outlandish theory being that at some point after the invention of time travel a mischievous time traveler will go back in time to the early 1400's and purchase a supply of vellum which they will then use to forge the Voynich Mss., going back in time again to plant it in the collection of Jesuit manuscripts in which Wilfrid Voynich found it.
This is, of course, absurd. Our current understanding is that creating a time machine would require a supply of matter than has negative mass (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), and as attractive as the possibility of (for instance) food that literally weights less than nothing might be, it is unclear that matter with negative mass exists. Given the positive mass of evidence I have provided, Occam's Razor surely favors the Voynich Mss. as proof of the historical reality of Edmund Blackadder.
a) Season one of Blackadder first aired in the summer of 1983;
b) the reading of EVA "cheyqok" as a reference to Blackadder as "che c*ck", i.e. "that pr*ck", relies on the specific phonetic values assigned to Voynich Mss. glyphs by the EVA transcription alphabet, which was created in the late 1990's,
Based on those paltry data points, my correspondent claims that this constitutes proof not only that the Voynich Mss. is a modern forgery, but is also proof that time travel is possible and will one day be created, his outlandish theory being that at some point after the invention of time travel a mischievous time traveler will go back in time to the early 1400's and purchase a supply of vellum which they will then use to forge the Voynich Mss., going back in time again to plant it in the collection of Jesuit manuscripts in which Wilfrid Voynich found it.
This is, of course, absurd. Our current understanding is that creating a time machine would require a supply of matter than has negative mass (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), and as attractive as the possibility of (for instance) food that literally weights less than nothing might be, it is unclear that matter with negative mass exists. Given the positive mass of evidence I have provided, Occam's Razor surely favors the Voynich Mss. as proof of the historical reality of Edmund Blackadder.