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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    Yes, that was the main purpose. :biggrin:
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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    The old man is quite advanced, LOL.
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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    The bridge only occupies a small fraction of the Hyper Planet, so it does not wrap around. The Hyper Planet has a diameter of 20,000 light-years, compare to 14,000 light-years diameter of the Large Magellanic Cloud, galaxy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud" . Same as on...
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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    The bridge is far too strong to crumble so it falls in its entirety at once. When separated from the cliff, the lack of force must be propagated through the entire bridge before it can fall. You can ignore the time it takes to fall 20,000 feet. The height was only given to make sure that the...
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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    Teaser Visualized *Not to scale.
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    Undergrad Can an Old Man Solve a Rubik's Cube Before His House is Destroyed?

    An old man has built his beautiful house on an unused bridge for excellent scenic views of the landscape. However there is a problem, demolition crew has arrived and have set charges to the sides of the bridge that connect it to the land-masses. The demolition crew does not know of the old man...
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    Graduate Phenomenological aspects of ultra-high-energy collisions

    I have been studying the future physics, well, high-energy experiments that will succeed LHC, sLHC, ILC, CLIC, LHeC, etc. Experiments that will complete the electroweak theory and the Standard Model with very high precision and help toward supersymmetry, extra-dimensions, dark matter, dark...