Pinch Paxton

Sorry but that's a really rubbish explenation. I must double post to say that this has no solution, and must be impossible. Pincho.

If it were possible to go back in time, and then put the letter in the box there would have to be an explenation for this to be feasible. The only explenation that makes any sense is the alternate universe, the multi-dimension theory. This would mean that the man enters the time machine, and never comes back to the same dimension. So to his original dimension he must have died or something. He looks for the box 10 years back in time, but it is not there because he is in the wrong dimension, and never existed to try the experiment. He puts the letter in a bank vault instead. He returns to the future in yet another dimension, the people are not waiting for him, but he finds them, and tells them that the box was not there, and tells them about the bank vault. They go to the bank, but there is no letter there because he is in yet another dimension, and never existed here either. So basically, I say that he only exists in each dimension, as he arrives there. This is to account for the increase in energy that is required to sustain each of his lives. This way, there is no increase in energy. But I don't actually believe that any of this is possible. We could not interact with the past, although we might be able to view the past as a ghostly image. Pincho.

Maybe you could check your feacies (Sp?) Cos we eat different food on certain days. Like sunday dinner, or you could deliberately eat a different meal each day because you know about your bad memory problem. So you check your feacies, and if it's Sunday dinner, you are into Monday, and now you eat whatever you eat on mondays. Make it something obvious like sweat corn, pommegranits, Vindaloo! LOL! Probably not to be taken too seriously! Pincho.

Light is often shown to be in two places at once. The speed of light is already wrong in my opinion. It must be breaking the speed of time, and not the speed of light. How can light be related to the speed of time? It is this linking that produces bad results. Pincho.

I think that ghosts exist, but not as spirits of dead people. I think that they are naturally occuring holograms. If everything falls into place, like the magnetic field, the temperature, the humidity, and maybe some kind of pipework, copper, minerals, basically the entire environment has to be perfect. I think that a ghost image can be stored, and replayed. Pincho.

I like the aether theory better! I'm sticking with that one! Light is a particle, that rides a wave in aether like a surfer. Pincho.

It's someone in a Santa costume closing some doors at Christmas! I got the same film from Harrods last week, and Boots the week before! LOL!

I think that we change the human evolution by building robots that take over the world. That may sound like Sci-fi but it is easy for robots to destroy mankind with germ warfare. Pincho.

We might have been to the moon!

I read the book before I saw the movie, and the book had a better ending.

I've only read Scrodinger's Kittens, and the experiment was more to do with light, and an observer in that book. The book suggest that light requires an observer for a photon to exist. So if you close a box with a cat inside, a photon detector, wired to a shotgun. Then put a single photon of light bouncing around inside, and never look inside the box. The light will pass through the detector, but will not be witnessed, so the shotgun should be in a ready to fire state. Does the gun go off, or does it wait for you to open the box? Pincho.

Yeah they do, which is a bit confusing being as I have watched a program explaining the limitation of eyes. Maybe it is just a part of the eye that has a size limit. Maybe the retina or something. Pincho.

I think that light would be a messy fractal. Eyes have size limitations. Look at an Elephant, or a Blue Whale, and the eyes have reached a maximum size..(Much smaller than the size of their bodies) So light would heve to be part of this fractal. Light would have to be reduced in size. Now to me, this seems to create problems with the weave. What do I mean by weave? Imagine light as a cloth weave, and you have a thick weave (Our light) interwoven with a thin weave (This imaginary fractal situation) The weave becomes so dense that there would be areas where the thin light couldn't cross the thick light. This would be areas of darkness. So we would travel forwards a certain distance, and then become blind. Does all that make sense? Pincho.

I got 3 but I think that skipping the word OF is Genius! Pincho.

Yeah I'm still interested in making this program, but I am still a bit stuck. I'm having a problem converting what I'm reading into Basic Programming. Pincho.

My sequence would start off... 1,2,3,4,5,6 It would eventually calculate 14 million tickets! If I do.. 1,2,3 how do I choose the other 3 numbers? Pincho.

Oh I see, you mean look for repeats whilst doing every combination.

But doesn't this..... 1,2,3 1,3,2 3,2,1 2,3,1...etc .....just change the order of the balls? Because the order of the balls does not matter. Just the numbers on the balls matter. Pincho.

I looked at Recursion, and permutations in programming but the examples were like this... 1,2,3 1,3,2 3,2,1 2,3,1...etc That's not what I am trying to do. I'm trying to do this.... 1,7,13,19,25,31 2,8,14,20,26,32 3,9,15,21,27,33 4,10,16,22,28,34..etc to make the minimun number of lines to win £10. I believe that it would have as few repeats as possible, which is what I am aiming for. Pincho.

Hi Jordan! This is an interesting problem, because I think that the lowest number of Guaranteed tickets has never been calculated. The 163 tickets that I mentioned were found by computer, but not mathematically, just randomly. Anyone who can beat that number will probably be the first person to do it. I must go through the details once more because some of your starting figures seem a little wrong to me. Number of balls in machine = 49 Number of balls removed from machine = 6 (Numbered 1 to 49) Number of choices on your ticket = 6 You have to get 3 right out of 6 So what is the minimun number of tickets that guarantee 3 right? Pincho. Edit: I posted an example with 42 balls because it was the only example I could find on the net.

Thanks! I'll take a look! Pincho.

Yipes! I have a difficult challenge! To work out the least number of lines it takes to guarantee £10 on the Lotto! Please read this thread as it explains everything. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243&perpage=20&pagenumber=1 I need a ..... For Next Loop to create all the combinations! Or a bunch of nested loops probably. Thanks! Pincho.

Sounds good! can anyone please varify this? Can anyone suggest the............ For Next loop in programming to create the lines? Thanks! Pincho.

Ahhh yes I remember reading that there are 20 sets of 3 numbers somewhere. Yes you're right I missed 5-6. Sorry that one of my examples confused you. It was from the American Lotto 6/42. My calculations are from the UK Lotto 6/49. I'm still stuck! Pincho.

Lets make this a simpler example.. Lets say that the Lotto had just 6 numbers, and you just have to Guarantee 2 numbers. 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 2-3 2-4 2-5 2-6 3-4 3-5 3-6 4-5 4-6 14 tickets guarantee 2 right. Pincho.