A Mind of its Own

Well, what do you make of that, Vello? asked Le Bon David, when they had finished reading Einstein's submission.

I think, said The VeloDrone thoughtfully, that it's fine until he gets to his working formula. I didn't understand that at all. Did you?

No, not at all, said Le Bon David. Why does he call the bicycle BB for example? Is it because there are two of them? At least in theory. His own and the lady's.

Possibly. The VeloDrone looked doubtful. The thing is David, you have to remember his backspace button isn't working. He may have only meant to type one letter B.

Oh dear. I hadn't thought of that. Do we dare ask him to clarify it?

That would be rather embarrassing. In his eyes it would place us amongst the general community that he doesn't expect to understand it.

But we don't understand it, Vello. Look at the formula. "BB = PGG=M=0". He says P and G are what we think they are. What do we think they are? And how many Gs are there really supposed to be?

Let's look at this analytically, David. What do we know? Firstly his backspace button isn't working. Ironic really, for the great Einstein, don't you think? Secondly. The nature of the problem with the backspace button is not quite as straightforward as it seems.

What do you mean, Vello?

I mean, David, that sometimes he types an extra letter and the backspace button won't let him go back and delete it. That's easy enough to understand. But why then doesn't he use his left arrow key to go back to the space before the extra letter and simply use his delete button?

Perhaps that isn't working either.

How likely is that? But there is a third thing. Remember how he ended off? Thee backspac butto is stuc . That would seem to me to indicate the backspace button is working. It's going back and deleting the last letters of certain words. Now my question is: Does the backspace button have a mind of it's own?

He says it does.

Yes but I think we can discount that. No, it's my opinion, now that I've analysed the evidence, that AlbertE is having a little joke with us. The question is, what are we going to do about it?