A proposed series of experiments designed to test the scientific validity of Britain’s songwriters.

Experiment 1.

THE HYPOTHESIS
That the lyric “slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball” is not only coke-addled, cod-psychedelic whimsy of the very worst kind, and so irritating that I’m still furious about it 14 years after I first heard it, but that it’s also unworkable in a universe of Newtonian physics.

MATERIALS
Noel Gallagher, 1 Cannon, 1 Cannonball.

METHOD
We set Noel Gallagher walking down a hall as slowly as he likes. We load the cannon with gunpowder and a cannonball. We aim the cannon at Noel Gallagher. We fire the cannon.

PROBABLE RESULTS
General fun and merriment at the very least.

CONCLUSION
Somebody really needs to fund this experiment, in the interests of expanding human knowledge, and in the interests of expanding Noel Gallagher’s surface area all over a corridor. Come on!

FOLLOW-UP EXPERIMENT:

HYPOTHESIS: “You and I are gonna live forever.” MATERIALS: Liam Gallagher, 1 Cannon, 1 Cannonball.

ps this was my 200th post. Glad I used it for something worthwhile.