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No you won't, you'll get Alzheimer's Disease. Stop trying to frighten him with bad science.
Not applicable at all. Carbon track forks are generally built stiffer than road forks.
In the olden days, steel track forks were stiffer than road forks from side to side, but if they had been of the same guage, taper and rake as road forks they would have been less stiff from front to back, due to the use of round tubes on track fork blades in place of the oval blades of road forks. I doubt that any actual track fork ever flexed more than its companion road fork, it just seemed that way because the clearance was tighter to start with, so ⅛" of movement was half the distance to the down tube, while ¼" of flex on a road fork only closed the gap by a quarter.