| Author | Message | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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I travelled and seemed to got bigger,then I travelled again and seemed to shrink. | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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Did you travel towards and then away from a miror? A black hole? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Did you travel towards and then away from a miror?No A black hole?No | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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emailed | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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(emailed:Are you Gulliver?)No | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Yay! I love when puzzles are harder than they look  Seemed from whose point of view: your own? some other specific person/people? people in general? did you actually get bigger and shrink? Are you you? if not, are you human? Time travel relevant? relativistic length contraction? overeating and dieting? | ||
| Mezzoforte (Mezzoforte)
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Do you mean your whole body seemed to grow and shrink, or only part of you (e.g. stomach)? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Seemed from whose point of view: your own?yesish some other specific person/people?yesish people in general?yesish did you actually get bigger and shrink?no Are you you?yesishif not, are you human?yes,i am human Time travel relevant?no relativistic length contraction?don't even know what that is,so no overeating and dieting?no | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Do you mean your whole body seemed to grow and shrink?No or only part of you (e.g. stomach)?yes-not necessarily the stomach | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Did you travel to a place where people were smaller than you so you seemed large by comparison, and then returning home the reverse happened? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Did you travel to a place where people were smaller than you so you seemed large by comparison, and then returning home the reverse happened? No | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did you seem to shrink because of the absence of whatever condition had previously made you seem to get bigger? or did you seem to shrink for a completely different reason? Relevant where you travelled to? where you travelled from? how far you travelled? is this a real journey? or something metaphorical? is it actually a vacation? Length contraction, according to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, is the decrease in length experienced by people or objects traveling at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Did you seem to shrink because of the absence of whatever condition had previously made you seem to get bigger? or did you seem to shrink for a completely different reason? Relevant where you travelled to?Yeswhere you travelled from?Yes how far you travelled?No is this a real journey?Yes or something metaphorical?No is it actually a vacation?irrelevant Length contraction, according to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, is the decrease in length experienced by people or objects traveling at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.Ah cleared that up.I am not traveling at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.You learn something new every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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Did you travel a specific distance, measurable in metres? Did you travel in the usual sense, i.e. from one physical area to another? Did you seem to get bigger physically? Did you travel by foot? By some vehicle? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Did you travel a specific distance, measurable in metres?Yope Did you travel in the usual sense, i.e. from one physical area to another?Yes Did you seem to get bigger physically?Yope Did you travel by foot?NoBy some vehicle?Yes | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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Vehicle - a literal means of locomotion manufactured by humans? Motorised? Car? Bicycle? Boat? Aeroplane? Camel? The yopish distance - more than 1 metre? 10? 100? 1000? | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Does this puzzle have to do with the media you travelled in? For example... did you travel into space? People grow a bit in space since less pressure is placed on their spinal column. Then they shrink again once back on earth. Or did you travel underwater? Similar effect, hence why whales are capable of growing to such enormous sizes. | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Vehicle - a literal means of locomotion manufactured by humans? Motorised? Car? Bicycle? Boat? Aeroplane? Camel? The yopish distance - more than 1 metre? 10? 100? 1000? irrelevant-for the purposes of the puzzle we shall assume aeroplane and you can measure the distance between the airports Does this puzzle have to do with the media you travelled in?No For example... did you travel into space?No People grow a bit in space since less pressure is placed on their spinal column. Then they shrink again once back on earth. Or did you travel underwater?No Similar effect, hence why whales are capable of growing to such enormous sizes. | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Where did you first travel from: Antarctica? South America? North America? Europe? Asia? Africa? Australia? Where did you first travel to (from the above list)? Where did you travel from, the second time? where did you travel to? Did your second journey take you back to where you started the first time? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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oh and, did the second journey start where the first ended? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Where did you first travel from: Antarctica? South America? North America? Europe? Asia? Africa? Australia? Where did you first travel to (from the above list)? Where did you travel from, the second time? where did you travel to? Did your second journey take you back to where you started the first time? oh and, did the second journey start where the first ended? I travelled from Britain to France to Australia | ||
| Torgeir Apeland (Abc)
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Has this got to do with the languages spoken and/or written in different locations? | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Has this got to do with the languages spoken and/or written in different locations?No | ||
| B. Johnson (Sycorax)
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Are the differing average heights of British, French, and Australian people relevant? (if there is such a difference) | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Are the differing average heights of British, French, and Australian people relevant? (if there is such a difference)No | ||
| Christiane Scharf (0815)
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Has this something to do with what you were wearing? Did your self-esteem grow bigger/shrink? Any other not-tangible thing? Psychology relevant? Brain important? Time between the two journeys important? Season important? Languages of the countries Britain, France, Australia important? | ||
| Evil Kenevil (Unluckykitten69)
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Surely this is to do with shoe size or clothes size being different. In one country one could be a size 34, in the next a size 32 etc. thus one "appears" to have grown or shrunk. | ||
| Warwick Bassett (Lemon_Martini)
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Has this something to do with what you were wearing?Yes Did your self-esteem grow bigger/shrink? Any other not-tangible thing? Psychology relevant? Brain important?No Time between the two journeys important? Season important?No Languages of the countries Britain, France, Australia important?No By Evil Kenevil (Unluckykitten69) on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 02:00 pm: Surely this is to do with shoe size or clothes size being different. In one country one could be a size 34, in the next a size 32 etc. thus one "appears" to have grown or shrunk.Yes! Well done Evil Kenevil....just about it **SPOILER** Since different countries use different measuring systems,sizes can change different.For the purpose of the puzzle,were I to be female and make the journey above,I would find that bust sizes go from say a 34 in Britain to 85 in France to 10 in Australia--hence the appearing to get much bigger,then much smaller Well done all.Hope you liked it.Keep watching! |
