Whistling Past The Impossible
All things deemed “impossible” have at least one qualifying feature in common: they haven’t happened—at least, not yet. For if something classified as impossible were to occur, it could not, by definition, remain so classed. It would have to come off the list. Not only would the occurrence of an “impossible” event disprove its impossibility, it would reveal that the impossible had in fact been possible for some period of time—perhaps for only a moment, but perhaps from the very beginning. During this interval,…