Message #400
From: Mark Oram <markoram109@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Conquered Everest?
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:57:24 +0100
Melinda,
I too had the peaks in mind metaphorically. After all,
if one likens the 3^5 to Everest, one needs other
names to invoke for the 4^5 and 5^5, or n^6 etc.
Perhaps humans will walk on the REAL Olympus Mons
before a 3^6 solution exists??
I have no doubt that you, or anyone else reading this,
could solve the 3^5, or other variants, if you wanted
to. Maybe the question then becomes (in the interests
of starting a possible discussion) to what practical
use if any could these accomplishments be put?
— Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> When I spoke about still-higher peaks I was still
> talking about the
> metaphoric types. Most specifically, there are still
> the 5^4 and the
> seductively symmetric 5^5 still waiting to be
> climbed. Judging from your
> description of the difficulty of solving the 3^5 I
> still stand by my
> prediction that we’re likely to see exactly one
> solution to the 5^5. It
> sounds like it could take most of a year to
> accomplish that and it’s
> hard to imagine more than one person finishing it
> unless perhaps we end
> up with a race. Either way it sounds awful but
> remember, any first
> solution will only happen once! ;-)
>
> Thank you for your description of the process. It
> made it possible for
> me to get an idea of how one might actually solve a
> 5D cube which until
> now just seemed like a miracle.
>
> -Melinda
>
> markoram109 wrote:
> > Melinda,
> >
> > Thank-you very much for your kind words of
> support: these really
> > make all the difference for me in these crazy
> undertakings :)
> >
> > Certainly there are many higher peaks out there:
> Olympus Mons, on
> > the planet Mars, is 3x higher than Everest for a
> start, and I think
> > there are cliffs on Miranda (a moon of Uranus)
> even higher. So as
> > you say there are always new peaks to aim for.
> Still, I’m not sure
> > I’ll be emabrking on any of these new challenges
> just yet….
> >
> > What I will be doing soon is expanding just a
> little on how this
> > solution worked out for me, with the hope that it
> will be useful
> > (and inspiring?!) for anyone else attempting to
> solve any of the 5-D
> > versions.
> >
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
> >
> > — In 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com, Melinda Green
> <melinda@…> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, congratulations! That’s beyond amazing to
> have solved a 5D cube. I haven’t even solved the 4D
> version!
> >> You did right by sending your log file to Roice
> and I see that he’s added you to the
> hall-of-insanity though I don’t see your log file
> >> listed there. BTW, even though you have clearly
> conquered Everest, there are still higher peaks
> waiting for the first person to conquer them too!
> ;-)
> >> -Melinda
> >
>
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