Recent content by tom_mi

As I think more about it, the second pass might not need the c(n,k) formula. the 28 pairs just need to be divided by 4 seats without replication e.g the table can't hold persons 1,4 and 3,1 because person #1 can't sit in 2 seats simultaneously. I'm a programmer and can write a script to...

Hi All, I'm hoping I can find some help to solve a puzzle that came up last night with friends. I thought I could find a solution but have been out of college too long. We had 3 couples over (8 adults), and wanted to play a single round for each possible pairing of the 8 people. After playing...

Oops, forgot I was thinking approx distance to center. :)

Excellent! So to cross the galaxy (est 25,000 light-years) in 1 month and join up with the rebellion my son will need to go 0.99999999999444488888004628888933% of C. He's going to need a faster bike. :)

Agreed Ryan & thanks for responding. Acceleration & social issues do matter; I just wanted to be sure I was drawing an accurate picture of what Relativity provides.

Thanks PAllen! So a device able to reach 'very nearly' C could traverse any distance with only perhaps a day's passing to the traveler? (so long as they realize millennia would pass on Earth) Regardless of the technical hurdles of achieving that speed, this puts to bed conversations I've...

Hello All, I hope my question isn't too simplistic for this forum. I've been giving my kids this illustration for a couple years, and have begun to doubt my story a bit. Hoping someone here might be able to clarify for me. It's simple really, here's the setup: *You're going to a star 10...