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very good madscientist! You're the first person I've told who has got it right. I'm on a mac at the moment and don't know how to open your file, so when I'm back on my PC I'll have a look :-D

are you serious? madscientists answer of making a whole was right?

I still have absolutely no idea. This really is teasing my brain!

we did in a round-about way, because if there were doorways he could just walk out and therefore wouldn't need the table and saw, which he does need.

hahahaha this is cracking me up. I never thought he wouldn't use the table and saw, why else would they be in the riddle? to be really mean and confuse people? actually don't answer that, I have no idea the extent of your mean-ness. How about he chops a leg off and died and his spirit exits the room on its way to heaven? Oh damn that answer doesn't count cause I'm atheist...

nice try madscientist but you can't change the question to suit your answer, it's the other way around The 6 o'clock bells start chiming at 5:59:30, and your answer is wrong

well i'm absolutely, positively stumped by this one. which makes me very frustrated as i'm a stubborn bastard. How about a clue?

I'm extremely interested in extra-terrestrials, namely ones that may have visited the earth. I think that if we were to assume crop-circles are of alien origin, they would be messages of some sort. Perhaps once we reach a certain level of understanding of the universe or science, we will be able to recognise these messages and be able to communicate back. In the movie Signs they are visual landmarks for an attack. We havn't been attacked yet - on a large scale at least - so I assume that's out of the question. However it would be interesting to see if there is any correlation between crop circles and reported abductions/UFO sightings/alien sightings. Does anyone know of any research been/being done on this?

Intelligence has nothing to do with political affiliation. America (a constitutional republic, not a democracy) along with the rest of the world will always have republicans and democrats, who will always be able to back up their own points and interpretations of facts. I've spent the last few months debating politics every single day on http://www.scam.com and I learnt a very valuable lesson. Neither side can ever prove they're the best. That aside, I think Michael Moore is a horrible individual and it's crazy how much he's allowed to run his mouth, maybe I'm just old fashioned but I see him as a criminal.

I'm guessing he saws the table to get sawdust then uses a component found in the torch (I'm no expert on explosives so can't say exactly what these components are) to make an explosive to blow up the wall. I know you'll be wanting a more detailed answer than this but am I on the right track? Do you really want a clue to the riddle?

Just a little thing, in the brainteasers section description it says "excercise", it's spelt exercise

both wrong. Oh I forgot to add that the chimes are always the same distance apart from eachother, although I'm guessing it's obvious from anyone who's heard a cuckoo-clock or anything like that. YT2095 where did you get 11:59:30 from? Sayonara, your answer is what everyone gets, I got it at first and then came to the same conclusion as you did, that it can't be that simple.

to my knowledge, conventional theories don't explain in detail how gravity and even magnetism works, i've asked some qualified people about this also. Apart from other theories, like http://www.thefinaltheory.com (a good read, by the way) are there any explanations so far that are applicable to our existing theories?

There's an old clock tower with an automated bell that chimes according to the time. e.g. at 4 oclock it will chime 4 times. At 6 o'clock, it chimes 6 times, starting 30 seconds before 6 o'clock, the last chime happens at 6 o'clock. When will the bell start chiming for 12 o'clock? p.s. When i first read this riddle, I got it almost straight away, but no one I've given it to has got the right answer 'till I've told them. From a psychological view-point it's very interesting as it indicates the thought processes of the person working it out as opposed to other brainteasers that test your intelligence. My theory is that if you spend 5 minutes working it out and don't get it, you never will even if you're the smartest person in the world, that's the hypothesis anyway

go here http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/classes/2004Spring/Phyx103/einstein.html you'll find some interesting stuff

yes we are in agreeance that a web designer should make websites firefox compatable when possible. I'm interested in firefox now so when i get home i'll download it, you may have converted me. If, as I've read here, you make something in firefox it has no problems in IE that will be great too. All I've been trying to say is that IE should be priority in terms of compatability

muad'dib , it's important to remember the "bowling ball on a mattress" to explain space-time is a way it's used to explain it in 3D terms because it's the only way we can understand it, the only way he could understand it as well obviously as we exist in a 3D environment (4 if time is counted). It would be able to be explained more accurately if it were possible for us to imagine the actual dimensions involved

exactly, gilded. That's exactly how I see it, and thanks for that analogy because I always have a hard time expressing this particular topic in words

basically, according to Einstein, light and time are intertwined. If we were to travel to half the speed of light for instance, one second to us would be two seconds to other people. various other things happen, such as your physical length shrinking to half its size (length in the direction you're travelling i mean) and gaining mass. It's a lot more complicated obviously but that's the basics. If I've explained this incorrectly I apoligise as I just woke up

muad'dib, you're right that the current theories say nothing about gravity having an energy source, but the fact is that the current theories dont tell us much about gravity at all. So your answer is correct, for now, but is insubstantial theory and shouldn't be stated as fact

are you serious? why?

If Hawking doesn't think it's possible that's good enough for me

it is in your country, not in his. American english and English are often very different. Like Aluminium and Aluminum, Mom and Mum...

i know this is a bit off topic, but have you heard about the recent test (two days ago) that shows that the same honey bees that are alive today were alive when the meteor hit? A full article can be found on http://www.newscienceonline.com if you're interested. It puts the dinosaur extinction by meteorite theory into question. Not that it happened, because I still believe it did, but the meteorite mustn't have been as big as previously thought and mustn't have induced such a huge winter as previously thought, as honey bees, as well as flowers, would be among the first species to become extinct in such a scenario.