How Can So Many People Fit In Such A Small Space?



 	The ladies' room has always been much of a mystery to humans (Earth)
 	of the male persuasion. Many questions have appeared over history, but
 	none so burning as how do so many of them fit into such a tiny space?

 	Dr Steven Moore, in his book "Transdimensionalism and the Ladies' Room:
 	Warp Lanes to Infinity", traces the history of mans' search to reveal
 	the truth:

 	If one has ever been to a restaurant with a group of friends, a sizeable
	quantity of which are female, then one must surely notice that, at some
	point, all of the women will get up and migrate to the ladies' room for 
	some reason totally incomprehensible to any man. But what is utterly 
	baffling is how so many people can fit themselves into such a small 
	space with no apparent discomfort. Many theories have been proposed, 
	however, in an attempt to explain this bizarre phenomenon.

 	One famous early hypothesis, proposed by the late Dr. Sergei Ivanovich
	Sarkonov, states that the lighting and arrangement of mirrors in the 
	powder room makes it appear smaller than it really is.  Unfortunately, 
	after a daring expedition made by a group of all-male scientists into a 
	typical ladies' room in 1905, this theory was struck down through 
	careful observation and study of the lights and mirrors. They concluded 
	that the room really was as cramped as it looked, and the "Powder Room 
	Puzzle," as it was now known, became one of the greatest scientific 
	dilemmas of all time.

 	In the early 1940's, however, after Einstein's concept of relativity 
	became popular among theoretical scientists, one young, fresh mind, 
	Dr. Georg Schlaufel from the University of Berlin, conjectured that 
	there was a confined disturbance in the Time-Space Continuum in each of 
	these locations, allowing, somehow, more people to fit into a smaller 
	space than previously thought possible. However, this line of thought 
	was ill-fated, as Dr. Schlaufel was drafted into Germany's war machine 
	and was killed shortly thereafter in the destruction of Berlin by the 
	Allies. As he was the only one able to read his handwriting, his theory, 
	unable to be understood by anyone living at the time, was soon forgotten.

 	With the advent of the third-generation supercomputer and superstring 
	theory in the mid-eighties, modern physics has been able once more to 
	delve into the mysteries of the ladies' room. Robert Matthews, a computer 
	programmer for the National Center for Supercomputing Research, after 
	nearly a dozen years of research and tedious programming, managed to 
	write a simulation program that attempted to describe what actually 
	occurs when large numbers of people filter into the women's restroom.

 	He found that the time-space continuum is actually compressed in small
	pockets, all of which amazingly seem to coincide with the placement of
	ladies' restrooms, and that after the capacity of a bathroom is reached, 
	any additional people entering the room appear to occupy the same point 
	in the continuum as the people already in the restroom. Of course, this 
	is mere illusion, because as it turns out, the room is actually 
	dimensional transcendental: it contains more space than it occupies.

 	Unfortunately, the government soon found out about this interesting
	phenomenon and obstructed the publication of Matthews' findings for 
	national security reasons. However, the information leaked out of NASA and 
	other government agencies. The public, through the media, became acutely 
	aware that a ground-breaking discovery had been made, and they petitioned 
	the government to make public the information. With the passing of the 
	Freedom of Information Act in 1990, the mind-bending truth was revealed 
	to the populace, and physics as we knew it was changed forever.






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