Brainteasers Thread

[Remi 1,309]

The Paris Swing Box's Brainteasers Thread

Hello everypony, the point of this thread is to see if you can come up with an answer to a question I post everyday.

**The questions are not that simple however, for I will post various types of questions, or even challenges.**

After every day, before posting the new question, I will give the answer or the explination to the question.


Question/Challenge #9:

Philisophical Week Edition:


What do you think of Life really is?
*(It does sound pretty vague, but rememer, Think philosophically.)*

New Question/Challenge Will Be Up On July 9th.


**If the question is correctly answered, I will post a new question early.**
*Please do not use Wikipedia text for answers. Use it only for checking purposes.**

Edited July 11, 2013 by The Paris Swing Cake

[Sir.Flutter Hooves 2,953]

 

 

Imagine a blind person asks you to describe a colour for them (red, in this case). How would you describe it to them? New Question/Challenge Will Be Up On July 8th.

 

Hmm, good question. When people can close their eyes, sometimes they can see two colors, dark and light. Since light is yellow, I would describe red as a darker shade of light.

 

Great topic by the way.

[The Swedish Brony 153]

Red is the color of emotions.

The color of love,

the color of anger,

the color of hate.

Red, is the color of when you feel passionate about something.

 

I hope this qualifies as an answer

[Remi 1,309]

Red is the color of emotions.

The color of love,

the color of anger,

the color of hate.

Red, is the color of when you feel passionate about something.

 

I hope this qualifies as an answer

Ah, I was expecting to see this sort of answer. Good answer my friend!

 

Hmm, good question. When people can close their eyes, sometimes they can see two colors, dark and light. Since light is yellow, I would describe red as a darker shade of light.

 

Great topic by the way.

Thank you. That's a good answer as well. I'd like to see how far and detailed the answers can become.

[Dark Moon 965]

.......damn that would be hard. How could they even comprehend color. I really don't know how I could explain it to them. I mean I could explain the emotions that go with the color, but how to actually describe a describing word already is beyond me. I mean how can you explain what Blue is. Blue is the color blue. I could try to explain shades, the difference between black and white, but still that wouldn't be enough, because they can't really understand colors beyond black and white. Unless they could still see colors in their dreams, but they really wouldn't know what name to associate with what color. Solid question TPSB /)

[soniccam1 242]

I think I may know this one right of the bat.

When a person is blind, he/she can see dark if no light is pointed at that person, the light could by any color such as the ROYGBIV spectrum or just only one color at of those spectrum, but still end up as a light yellow or red if they are blind.

So I think of them as

ORANGE.

[Remi 1,309]

I think I may know this one right of the bat.

When a person is blind, he/she can see dark if no light is pointed at that person, the light could by any color such as the ROYGBIV spectrum or just only one color at of those spectrum, but still end up as a light yellow or red if they are blind.

So I think of them as

ORANGE.

Interesting point. Great answer!

[Dis is not a troll 27]

why do you ask the question i ask myself so many times ? i will just answer what i say to myself,

Red is kinda like the color that flashes before your eyes and in your head when you experience sharp pain, i do ot have a good answer,but this is the answer that i am satisfied with

[Shiki 5,856]

 

 

Question/Challenge #2: Can you describe why Left and Right are different?

BECAUSE LEFT ISN'T..... RIGHT

 

*Childish giggles*

[Remi 1,309]

BECAUSE LEFT ISN'T..... RIGHT

 

*Childish giggles*

 

[~Squishy Skies~ 756]

Can you describe why Left and Right are different?

They're different because they are. They describe two different sides of an axis. Right cannot be left, and left cannot be right. Right is right, and left is left. 

Edited July 5, 2013 by Keiichi

[Remi 1,309]

They're different because they are. They describe two different sides of an axis. Right cannot be left, and left cannot be right. Right is right, and left is left. 

Great answer! Thanks for participating!

 

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

 

 

Can you describe why Left and Right are different?

 

 

Left and right are different because we exist in three dimensions. Because of that (assume facing toward positive Y), we can choose to turn, look, or move in either the positive or negative X. This is considered right and left, respectively.

[Remi 1,309]

 

 

Left and right are different because we exist in three dimensions. Because of that (assume facing toward positive Y), we can choose to turn, look, or move in either the positive or negative X. This is considered right and left, respectively.

 

Another great answer! You guys are breezing through this one!

 

[Dark Moon 965]

Left and right only exist because we are alive, so we have a perspective. It is how we make sense of the world. Because we live on a world with gravity, so up and down are established, which in space don't exist. So if up and down can be established, then left and right can be established from our point of view.

[Shiki 5,856]

srs answer:

 

Assume an object is placed at 0,0 on a 2 dimensional cartesian plane. Assume we place another point on the plane. If the point were plotted in quadrants 2 or 3, the newly placed point would be considered to the "left," relative to the point we plotted. If the new point were plotted in quadrants 1 or 4, the new point would be considered to the "right" of the original point. This is the difference between left and right. 

[Dis is not a troll 27]

the color of a mirror is actually very bright silver or that is my opinion :/ when i look at the mirror i always think its kinda silver-ish. im sorry my answer is a bad answer

[Remi 1,309]

the color of a mirror is actually very bright silver or that is my opinion :/ when i look at the mirror i always think its kinda silver-ish. im sorry my answer is a bad answer

No answer is a bad answer here! Thanks for participating with us!

[The Swedish Brony 153]

a mirror... the color of a mirror... Since a mirror reflects what is in front of it, I'd say that a mirror's color is the color of the world around us.

BUT, since what we perceive as color is nothing but the reflection of light as it hits something(remove the source of light and the color will disappear), then I think the more accurate answer is that the color of a mirror is... light

[Remi 1,309]

a mirror... the color of a mirror... Since a mirror reflects what is in front of it, I'd say that a mirror's color is the color of the world around us.

BUT, since what we perceive as color is nothing but the reflection of light as it hits something(remove the source of light and the color will disappear), then I think the more accurate answer is that the color of a mirror is... light

You are close to the real answer, great job!

 

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

A mirror takes on the apparent colour of what it reflects, since it has no true colour of its own. This is the characteristic of many metals; most modern mirrors are made with silver. Silver is a colourless metal or otherwise described as white ^[1][2], as is Aluminum, Scandium, and both Alkali and Alkaline metals.

 

A retroreflector often is the same, though the reflection is far more diffuse since much of the detail is lost in the re-transmission of the visual information back to where it came from.

[Remi 1,309]

A mirror takes on the apparent colour of what it reflects, since it has no true colour of its own. This is the characteristic of many metals; most modern mirrors are made with silver. Silver is a colourless metal or otherwise described as white ^[1][2], as is Aluminum, Scandium, and both Alkali and Alkaline metals.

 

A retroreflector often is the same, though the reflection is far more diffuse since much of the detail is lost in the re-transmission of the visual information back to where it came from.

 

Many of you are getting shakingly close to the real answer. However, I suppose since you all have given a 98% true answer, I shall post the real answer. I would have prefered no use of Wikipedia, for I'd prefer if everyone used their primary knowledge. Great answer, though!

 

 

Edited July 5, 2013 by The Paris Swing Box

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

 

Many of you are getting shakingly close to the real answer. However, I suppose since you all have given a 98% true answer, I shall post the real answer. I would have prefered no use of Wikipedia, for I'd prefer if everyone used their primary knowledge. Great answer, though!

 

I knew it beforehand. I provided a citation because I checked to see if I was right.

[Remi 1,309]

The correct answer for the question of 'what colour is a mirror?' is this one:

Although many of you were correct in saying 'a mirror is essentially the colour of what ever it reflects.', a mirror, does have its own colour.
A perfect mirror reflects everything that hits it (in terms of light hitting it), however, a mirror does not reflect light the same way pigment does.
A mirror reflects incoming light in a single outgoing direction: Specular Reflection, not diffuse. This type of reflection creates an image of the very thing in the mirror, so technically, it is a 'smart kind of white.'
However, that is a perfect mirror, and in the real world, there are no perfect mirrors. A mirror absorbs a little bit of light, and if you look at the spectrum of light reflected by a typical mirror, you will observe, that it reflects light best in the 510 nanometer range, which we perceive as green light.
So technically, the colour of a mirror is green.
You can observe this in a mirror tunnel, depicted below:



Thank you for participating everyone! I will post a new question soon!

Edited July 5, 2013 by The Paris Swing Box

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]