Comments on: [Off topic] Triangle Puzzle

By: glennj

glennj — Tue, 09 May 2006 20:24:27 +0000

There is no hole or “gap” in the triangles just as there are no “gaps” in the fossil record.
You can easily use your imagination to visualize the hole as it really appears filled in from the surrounding squares.
The color is missing from the square only because we have not yet found it, but the color is most certainly there.
Real science has already proven that there is no hole.
Only creationists will continue to see a white hole that really isn’t there because they are not scientists.
To insist there is a white hole in the second triangle is to postulate a capricious God, one who would attempt to fool us in thinking there is a hole when clearly there is not.
Above all, students must not be subjected to information about the hole because the hole is nothing more than a religious belief.

By: j

Tue, 09 May 2006 10:45:05 +0000

Stuart Kauffman weighs in: “To state that a gap is so illogical that it requires recognition of an optical illusion is just ill-founded. The argument uses standard geometry, which does not apply to the mathematics of the triangle.”

By: great_ape

great_ape — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:46:17 +0000

Fellows. Allow me to assist. You have systematically missed the crux of the matter entirely. By merely acknowledging the existence of the alleged “hole,” you extend an unwarranted credibility to the notion that it requires an explanation. Clearly it does not. It’s presence–or, rather, absence, is not in the least bit remarkable. The “hole,” as you incorrectly characterize it, is little more than the inevitable exposure of an eternal white grid space that necessarily follows from any number of random permuations of the component triangles. While the precise fitness function applicable to the triangle permutations is admittedly unknown, I am nevertheless confident that an unguided search of triangle-orientation-space would ultimately discover this and many additional “holes.” Your continued preoccupation with this phantasmal “hole” threatens to derail the scientific enterprise and will ultimately undermine America’s technological and economic preeminence.

By: ajl

ajl — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:57:34 +0000

Here is another one of those fun games, though with a slightly different twist:

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/p...../1lep.html

we’ve spent hours with folks trying to figure out where the little leprechaun went

By: Lurker

Lurker — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:07:33 +0000

I like all your responses MUCH BETTER than mine! I particularly like this one…

“The second triangle only gives the appearance of having a gap.”

Ha Ha!

By: Collin DuCrÃƒÂ¢ne

Collin DuCrÃƒÂ¢ne — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:56:47 +0000

The hypoteneuse of the second triangle is simply an older version of the first.

Due to the rate of expansion of the universe since the Big Bang
the second hypoteneuse only appears to have become curved.

This is caused by space-time dialation,
as specified by Relativity.

As for the grid itself, it was created flat,
and remains eternally flat.

By: Zero

Zero — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:22:56 +0000

Plese fix my “bends” You may need a decompression
chamber.

b………s
..e…..d
…..n

By: Zero

Zero — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:16:39 +0000

This proves that the only straight
thing in creation (light) b s.
e d
n

Sero

By: Michaels7

Michaels7 — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:27:29 +0000

oops, a man of the triune cloth, ahmmm….

By: Michaels7

Michaels7 — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:23:45 +0000

LucID,

Brain Surgeons are not allowed to comment on evolutionary triangles without a loss of moral objectivity.

You need instead, a man of the cloth….