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Can you solve the time travel riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. You’ve got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to create a new portal to open a doorway through time. Can you take the right amount of nodules to get back to the present before the portal closes? Dan Finkel shows how.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Daniel Finkel
Director
Igor Coric
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Animator
Nemanja Petrovic
Layout Artist
Ivan Zupanc
Modeler
Nemanja Petrovic
Camera
Ivan Zupanc
Sound Designer
Nemanja Petrovic
Content Producer
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Fact-Checker
Brian Gutierrez

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