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(Message started by: alien2 on Oct 7^th, 2016, 2:53am)

Title: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 7^th, 2016, 2:53am

Albert and Stephen have an IQ of 140. Albert has a rotating frame with six non-transparent photos inserted. Stephen is a guest at Albert’s house. He takes a look at a wall with 10 pictures of Albert’s cat. He then notices the cube with no prior knowledge whatsoever about it. He takes a glance at its six cat photos. He knows without a shadow of a doubt behind which photo of Albert’s cat is battery slot. But how?

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by dudiobugtron on Oct 7^th, 2016, 2:54pm

[hide]Albert has arranged the cat pictures on the wall in some code that is familiar to Stephen, or that Stephen has worked out. He then can decipher the meaning of the pictures on the cube as well.[/hide]

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 8^th, 2016, 12:14am

The intended answer is a lot less complicated. I think. To be honest, I have doubts about its validity.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by dudiobugtron on Oct 8^th, 2016, 1:03am

[hide]Albert put the cat picture in upside down.[/hide]

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 8^th, 2016, 4:46am

Not bad. Though that is irrelevant regarding the intended answer.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by Grimbal on Oct 15^th, 2016, 12:47pm

Stephen immediately recognize Erwin's(*) cat.

The pictures are opaque.
So the battery cannot be observed.
So its location is in a superposition of all possible positions ... or could be ... maybe. Anyway.
So it is behind all pictures at the same time.
And at the same time it's not.

For Stephen(*) and Albert(*) that's the way the world works.

* Erwin Schrödinger, Stephen Hawkins, Albert Einstein.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 16^th, 2016, 5:02am

Meh. The intended answer is plausible but it isn't fantastic. Still, Einstein is the clue, that is, if you know a lot about him or at least watched a certain Jeff Goldblum movie.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by Grimbal on Oct 16^th, 2016, 7:19am

The one where he plants a virus in your spaceship?

Anyway, if it's a cube, and the battery is inside, it is behind all the pictures, isn't it?

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 16^th, 2016, 7:24am

No and no. Darn mosquitoes are still biting. I'm looking forward to flies. They're annoying too but at least they don't bite me.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by rloginunix on Oct 16^th, 2016, 7:36am

I presume you are referring to [hide]Jeff Goldblum's movie "The Fly"[/hide]?

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by rloginunix on Oct 16^th, 2016, 5:01pm

Separately.

To his, technically, tomcat named "Tiger", Albert, according to the bottom of page 414, once said:

- I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn it off.

Title: Re: Magical Rotating Photo Cube
Post by alien2 on Oct 17^th, 2016, 2:30am

on 10/16/16 at 07:36:00, rloginunix wrote:

I presume you are referring to [hide]Jeff Goldblum's movie "The Fly"[/hide]?

Yes.