A Major Hole In Science

**Spindulik** · 08-07-2003, 05:50 AM

Originally posted by lynx@6 August 2003 - 23:11
The apparent size of the complete images is 13 * 5 / 2 = 32.5 squares

But if you add up the apparent sizes of the individual parts you get

8 + 7 + (3 * 8 / 2) + (2 * 5 / 2) = 32 squares.

A variation of the size of the individual parts of about 1% along each axis is all that is needed to give this false picture, but on the scale shown this is undetectable.

You are correct.

Use that paint program and snap a straight line from the top right corner of the actual triangle to the bottom left cornerof the actual triangle.

You'll see that the line is bowed differently in both pictures. Enough to make that 1/2 a box off.

**SodiumChloride** · 08-07-2003, 06:18 AM

I want to buy a time machine and bring Newton and Leibniz(sp?) to the present year and show them that picture, and see how long it takes them to get it

**Barbarossa** · 08-07-2003, 09:08 AM

The gradients of the two triangles is not the same, the green one (2:5) is steeper than the red one (3:8), therefore the complete image is not in fact a triangle, but a quadrilateral.

The first one has a dip in it equivalent to about half a square, from plane.
The second one has a lump in it of the same size.

Therefore, summed together, that adds up to a square, which is where the extra square comes from in the second image.

**3rd gen noob** · 08-07-2003, 09:16 AM

how is this a major hole in science??

it's just another in a long line of puzzles

what is more amazing is a bose-einstein condensate as i said in another post earlier

**balamm** · 08-07-2003, 09:27 AM

Dip? lumps and bumps?

That's a bit too scientific fer me. Got screen shots for dummys?

**bigboab** · 08-07-2003, 09:29 AM

You would have thought that they wouild have reported the death of Pythagoras
in todays papers!

OH! Sorry that as Pythagorus

**titey** · 08-07-2003, 09:43 AM

Originally posted by balamm@7 August 2003 - 04:27
Got screen shots for dummys?

**balamm** · 08-07-2003, 09:55 AM

Ah! tricky bastards

**thewizeard** · 08-07-2003, 10:10 AM

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Got screen shots for dummys?

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Ah.....! Talking of holes! I heard that a hole had appeared at Piccadilly Circus today......the police, are looking into it.....