From the Easy Ways to End the World Dept.

Explain Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem to Twilight Sparkle.

I give it, ooh, maybe six hours of twitchy-eye and increasing mane disarrangement before she goes full "If I can't find a self-consistent universe, I'll make a self-consistent universe!"

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[FanOfMostEverything]

I think you just found another potential origin story for Discord.

[LostArchivist]

Some 15 minutes after that, there's a conversation along the lines of "Twilight, it's nice that it's provable and that c is now a round number, but the shoggoths are eating your brother!"

Any plans to update this story soon?

[Oliver]

There’s that short story I remember, but would be hard pressed to track down, when, upon attempting to produce a fully self-consistent arithmetic, the scientists attempting to do so find out that they’ve accidentally altered the universe into one in which such a self-consistent system is possible.

They don’t like the results.