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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What if you wanted to activate enough chrono-nodules to open two doorways through time? What’s the minimum number of chrono-nodules you would need to be sure you could do it? (Assume nodules cannot be used simultaneously in two different portals.)
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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
