Narrator: THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS: A FAIRY TALE
T-Rex: Once upon a time there was a goose that laid golden eggs! The farmer who owned the goose was getting super rich, but she also had some questions!
T-Rex: Questions like "what energy is required by the goose in order to facilitate this apparent transmutation?"
T-Rex: She began a regime of careful observation! After a few weeks she had a few data points. ONE: the goose was not eating any gold, so it must be produced internally. TWO: gold produced / (food consumed + body mass lost) = 5% = a transmutation efficiency equation. And THREE: other geese feeding in the same area would not produce golden eggs. So she concluded, quite rightly, that the phenomenon was related to the goose itself!
Utahraptor: And she couldn't breed it, because its eggs were solid gold.
T-Rex: Exactly.
T-Rex: The only way left to learn more was dissection! So, for science, she gave up a source of great personal riches. UNFORTUNATELY, she lived in a world with primitive scientific instruments, and without microscopes and cellular analysis she was unable to discover the production mechanism.
T-Rex: Nevertheless, her selfless actions stopped the gold market from collapse, saving her country from an economic catastrophe and decades-long recession. She is remembered today as a great woman and an early proponent of the scientific method.
Narrator: THE END
