Shock Claim: 1+10=11

Scientists the world over today are struggling with the shocking claim, proposed shortly after midnight this morning by freelance professor of histrionics Dr. Erich von Freemason, that  the result of combining the numbers one and and ten together will yield a sum of eleven. For his part Freemason has been keeping a low profile since the announcement and plans on continuing in it until experts in the fields of mathematics and physics are able to independently verify his results through their own further experimentation.  Despite this self imposed temporary exile, however, Freemason did tell The Vitamin Press that his discovery was very much the result of a happy accident when he used a dime and a penny to supply much needed zinc and copper in his quest to construct a working variable specific impulse magneto-plasma rocket engine and that after the serendipitous event of the penny and dime getting to close together at a critical juncture in his work the resultant discovery caused him to feel “just like Alexander Fleming must have when he accidentally discovered Viagra.”

The full implications of this discovery, should the thesis not be rendered invalid through the ongoing process of peer review and experimentation, are hard to gage at the moment but it is likely they will prove to be vast and far reaching.  The most immediately recognized of these is the consequence it has on so many end of the decade celebrations and round up lists.  Obviously if a decade lasts ten years and our calender started with year one then the reality of 1 + 10 = 11 would mean that the actual end of the decade would not occur for at least another year.