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Zobot257
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[Trailhead?] The Gravity Papers
An archivist, people in peril, and math...

So I got this weird email from archivistsplatgravitypapers.com. I am pretty sure it is a Trailhead...

Quote:
There are three people in peril:


A physicist racing against time to stop a madman.

A reporter trying to find his brother's killer.

A woman lost at sea.


I am the only one who can save them all.

I need your help.


My name is Gavin.

I am the archivist.


http://www.gravitypapers.com​


But I will be in California away from my capacity to play for the next fiveish days. Someone want to look into this for me? It looks very interesting, the website seems to have several mathematical formulae plus several secrets.[/b]

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Adm_BlackCat
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Got the same email. Will snoop more when I have time.
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amandel
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Am also rather busy traveling for my employer but my vagabond ways brought me here to say a big HI to Z, Adm_BlackCat & all and to agree this looks intriguing.

OK... the formula on the home page is "Newton's law of universal gravitation" leading to the archive PW:
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newton


And the coords (51.4778 N, 0.0015 W) in the level 1 archive led me to the "Meridian Bldg and Telescope Gallery" (Royal Observatory). Have fun now!
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Russell
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Lots of info on the site to work through which with the recent forum down I have been collating but here we go:

On the letters page once you submit your message you receive the following:

Quote:
glaksneijbbrcikizrvrjbbrcpwvsf
glwmpeboamwzrejwgcngatbqnph
mvrxmjzgubvoxgnahwezguigbbtfqagkbeoegugbkamvre
qezvgcypbhonggmctrxdxfnteeghbferxhurakkzq
oypbhfgenmgjvxdmveri


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Which uses the same password as amandel mentioned for the archive with a vigenere

there are nine people in nine places
that broke time and space and all
the kings horses and all the kings men working together
might put it back together again to save the world
but it starts with three


Observations:


Quote:
Observatory Page

Has a picture of greenwich royal observatory soecifically the Shepherd Gate Clock


Quote:
Locations Page

OBSERVATORY
O _ _ _ _ (Ocean?)
OHIO


Quote:
Newtons laws page

There are three steps to Level Two:

1.

2.

3.

I presume these are the laws of motion but i havent translated this into a new page yet.


Quote:
Lanterns Page

Quote from Carol Borges

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees


Quote:
Characters so far

Hannah Faulkner - Physicist in search of formula
Jani - Astronaut, recently disappeared, Hannahs daughter
Gavin Reade - Archivist
Lane Cameron - Reporter investigating Hanks murder
Hank - murdered on way to concert, brother of Lane
Jack See - friend of the alleged murderers with paper that proves their innocence
Catherine See - Last person to speak to Hannah, mother of Jack See


Quote:
Twitter addy

https://twitter.com/gravitypapers


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amandel
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Worshippy @Russell, collator & Decrypter mavin & @Booba, tweet detective who prompted the latest PW protected page: http://archive.gravitypapers.com/three.html
Three PW
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motion

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booba
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I let him know, amandel. If the last one is Shakespeare the last names spell out optics ?? Don't think it's Shakespeare...

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http://archive.gravitypapers.com/level-two.html


EDIT to add:
Maybe it was

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http://archive.gravitypapers.com/optics.html
Check source code.


Edit part deux: and a new blog post
http://archive.gravitypapers.com/blog.html

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Silver Sol
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Whelp, looks like this old account can finally breath again.

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I haven't felt a trailhead tingle in ages,not since HPP. Been lurking since then and caught up once this thread caught my attention.


So, anything I can help out with?

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amandel
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Gavin Reade on twitter wrote:
Got a strange letter today. I put it in the archive under the file name: 5-12-24-18. Have I ever told you that you put the "i" in file?

file name page solve
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A number to letter sub & adding 2 times "i" gives:http://archive.gravitypapers.com/elixir.html

Hello & Welcome Silver Sol. I got lucky on the cipher string, "kjpfximnnoqvuiqppg", found on the latest page yet am certain there will be plenty for you to help with.
file page cipher solve
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It's a Gronsfeld Cipher & using the key "5-12-24-18" reads: find the immortal one

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Silver Sol
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Ahh, fair enough.

But who is the immortal one? Looking at the theme of this ARG it could be another physicist of great stature, and metaphorically a lot of physicists would be immortal, known throughout time. It also could be a concept of philosophy. Would it be worth asking Gavin about it?

Update: I was researching the concept of the immortal one, and I came across Plato's final work on Socrates, Phaedo. In it was the discussed theory of the Human soul being immortal among other theoretical ideas.

I also was aware of the concept of biologically immortal creatures, such as the Turritopsis dohrnii, or immortal jellyfish, which is capable of reverting to it's initial polyp phase after it has reached sexual maturity, therefore restarting it's life again.


Gavin replied to my question. I asked him if it was possible that the human soul could be immortal.

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I think anything is possible, but I will admit that while I know a lot, I don't know who the immortal one could be.


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So, if not even the archivist knows who the immortal one is, I guess it's up to us to discover who or what the immortal one could be.


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ads123
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Decided to have a look at this one as this has some sort of interest to me. As the elixir of life has been mentioned I think it's worth looking at Newton's role in all of this. This Wikipedia page goes in depth on Newton's studies of the occult, specifically his interest in alchemy and in particular the Philosophers Stone and to a lesser extent the elixir of life.

I'm not sure entirely what direction to go from here but I have tweeted Gavin
Quote:
Did you know Issac Newton wanted to create the Elixir of Life? Seems to be an interesting coincidence.
So any other thoughts would be appreciated.

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Silver Sol
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Looks like Gavin meant to begin his search for Hannah today, but he's unsure of where to start

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Today I need to start working on finding Hannah. Not sure where to begin. Coast Guard says no emergency beacon activated, no wreckage, etc.

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Babylon The Bride
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Looks like there was a blog update yesterday.

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Updates!

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found is something of a headache, as I'm sure you can imagine. As far as the authorities are concerned, Hannah is not "officially" missing. Since there has been no distress call, no wreckage, and no sign of any storms in the area; as far as the coast guard is concerned she is not missing, but rather has simply decided not to radio in and probably has turned her radio off, which is why she is not responding to calls. Most likely she is docked and on land somewhere.

However, we DO have a small lead. As you know, Hannah's daughter is an astronaut aboard the ISS, but her husband, Hannah's son-in-law, has agreed to hand over Hannah's address book. The book contains the usual defunct list of relatives and numerous addresses for her daughter, but the most compelling of all is a note at the front of the book:

Jani
Location
*Location
Location
DRSQL
Hicetubiqueterrarum
1534


Add spacing to the second to the last line to get

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Hic et ubique terrarum, Latin for 'here and ever where on earth', the motto for the University of Paris.


No ideas about any of the rest.

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ndemeterModerator
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OK, here too.

The Newton's Laws of Motion were easy enough to find but here they are for posterity:

Quote:
I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.


Quote:
II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.


Quote:
III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.


The Laws make sense of Gavin's twitter cover picture.
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booba
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Ok so.. I went the long way 'round through 1534, Copernicus, Pope Paul III, and Latin to come up with a guess for location 2
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Orbit




Edit to add
Nailed it down:
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DRSQL with the vigenere password Paris is Orbit


He's only mentioned the Space Station a dozen times (hand to forehead)

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no link to anything Green

sorry to be breaking the fourth wall but just to clarify - despite similarities, this ARG is not linked [on our part anyhow!] to the Jaadian Green related ARG - this is definite due to myself being the PM of the latter [and not linked to the former in any way!]
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