You’re a sciencey person and also weird, so I was wondering if you had an answer for this: if I managed to smuggle bears into Antarctica, would they have to change the name?

glumshoe:

Yes, but smuggling bears into Antarctica would be very difficult. Antarctica isn’t just so-named because there aren’t any bears there – it actively repels them, kinda like a magnet. If you attempt to approach Antarctica with bears in tow, you will be pushed away by the anti-bear force. You’ll have to work with a large and well-coordinated team to approach Antarctica from all sides and with enough raw bear power to overcome the repulsion, otherwise the continent might slide away. 

Plus, how would you even transport that many bears without the sheer bear force tearing you apart? 

It’d probably be easier to go to the Arctic and catapult all the bears away from it. There’s bear force there, too, but not as strong because it isn’t anchored to an actual continent.