Recent content by Ubern0va

I think it may be the grammatical error, which generated the extra answers?

My thoughts exactly! I started to look for possible solutions, but quickly the vagueness turned me off because I don't even know what I'm looking for.

Has anyone tried these (just curious).

I think he was looking for the formal description. I too was wondering the same thing: When we say "a human eats a sandwich", there are a lot of details that we don't include but it still makes sense to us. Saying, "an electron emits a photon", may make sense to the electron itself (if we...

Sorry to bring up another old one but I stumbled upon it and had this exact realization (the same as quoted above). This barber cannot exist, so your premises are contradictory (i.e. it's a lie). You say that there are two sets of men A and B and every man is either in A (gets shaved by the...

Actually I've already come to the realizations that are listed in this thread; I was just adding a simple way to confirm them, a way to "see" the extra area, for those who don't have the ability to approach this mathematically, or still aren't convinced for some reason.

I'm not sure how much this differs from the pattern posted here a while ago by another user, but I was doodling the other day and I thought of http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/medrawuc/4_shapes.jpg" . When I look at it now, I realize that the shape could be simplified (to just a letter...

If you want to physically confirm that some outside block has been pulled into the triangle by differences in slope, complete the rectangles using the empty space that corresponds to the two smaller triangles. Then complete the rectangle on the larger triangle and you will see that there are 16...

Prove it to whom? What does it mean to prove something? to explain something? It means to relate some phenomenon to one of our 5-6 senses. Maybe I coul'd prove it to you, but it doesn't mean that I've fundamentally proven it.

What do you mean by that? :)

I can't prove to a blind man that I can see. Does that mean I can't see?

No doubt about it. I still don't understand how 74 points out a murderer. In fact I'm kind of angry because this was a complete waste of my time. Not only does the riddle have a trivial answer that wouldn't hold in any court room, anywhere in the world, but the answer doesn't even elude to a...

I'm pretty sure that light energy is absorbed, similar to heat. With a constant light source, the amount of reflection is constant (more or less), but, when you turn off the light, there are no more new photons to reflect. It's the constant light source that makes you perceive a problem with all...

I'm just starting my second Calculus course, those nested integrals look fun :eek:

Has everyone dropped this? I want to know the answer and would be happy to colab with people (just PM me).