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[Sygerrik]

I'm so terribly sorry for unleashing that e number thread in the first place. I am the ruiner of worlds!
But seriously. Perhaps that "seeking" has some connection with "2210," the number on the postcard and the Kanji character for "seek." Hmmm...

[Rei]

that was from a specific dictionary, i think the more general lookups for kanji resulted in another word... which was something similar but opposite.

[firefox]

i think both the kanji and morse code was clutching at straws.. to many different ways to interpret the information we had. until we get a more specific 'puzzle' (or direction in which to proceed) instead of just a long number, its safe to say we're just bobing up and down in the water waiting for the current to come...

the history of the academy and of the cube will mostly likely be revealed with more 'e-logs' or through another means on the website, and i can't wait to know more of the back-story.

[Olorin]

I have to admit I'm rather puzzled about this theory of Perplex City being in the future.
Where do you guys take the idea from?

Sure, the dates we've seen seem to be different from the dates we are using in our reality. But that seems to me to simply indicate they use a different calendar. I don't know...
..I guess I tend to imagine the P-Universe (tm) just as a parallel universe (anyone read Michael Morcock's serie ?) with a different calendar and, probably, different technology (which allowed them to create the Cube).
That could probably also explain the similarities betweentheir world and ours... after all, even in the multiverse, there are some things that seem to apply in all universes.

Now, I don't think that the fact that they use English is a big deal (how could we play the game if they used a language that we could not recognize at all?). But there are other similaritites... for instance they have academies, like we do in our universe. Girls, apparently, like shoes, like they do in our universe and so on

So, in conclusion, let me gte back to my original question: why did you guys (and gals) thought about the P-Universe being in the future?

Thanks,
F.O.R.

[StarryNight]

[thebruce]

[quote="StarryNightI still think that the 24 digit number is a solvable puzzle. I'm not sure about 2210, but our current 2 theories seem like stretches to me too.[/quote]
Likewise, I would be utterly surprised if they just thought 'lets stick a long random digit string onto the postcard to throw them off'...

then again, it's likely... but I'd be surprised if it were...

[Nik_Doof]

i'm starting to suspect the postcard code is there to burn time....nothing more. Its done a bloody good job as well.

[kelsey_requiem]

[Fi]

I can't help but think of Perplex City being in a similar vein to Lyra's Oxford.

[Seej]

Well, we know for sure they have a different calendar to us - the date at the bottom of S.Marchant's message is 148 AC. The fact that the residents of Perplex City are clearly technologically advanced implies a futuristic setting, as does the text of Sarah Covington's 'Shoes!' email, esp. the title of the proposed anthro team - "Subject: Civilisation and Late Stage Urbanisation, A Phase 2 Consumer Transition"

However, the alternate universe idea is equally plausible if we assume that their civilisation has developed differently to ours.

Of course, space-time being what it is, the question of whether an alternate universe is in the future or not is meaningless as there's no way to clearly establish what constitutes the future in an alternate universe.

I think that in the absence of clear evidence it's more instructive to keep an open mind. That way you won't discount possible solutions to puzzles just because they don't fit into your preconceived idea of the world in which they take place.

[EclecticMunk]

Time travel

[firefox]

Re: Time travel

[EclecticMunk]

Or...

Sente lives in a world that is powered by electronic speculation. His civilization seeks worlds that contain curious intelligences on the threshold of self-realisation and ply them with random obscure puzzles. A powerful quantum flux generator monitors our forums and IRC channels and sucks up any stray speculation it may find. The speculation is converted by the generator into electrospectricity - which is then used to power their world.

With this single post, I have just enabled Sente to watch 7 hours worth of their local equivalent of "Neighbours" or "Melrose Place".

[Munchkin]

Just back to the idea of "why would they have latin?".
To have developed English I feel you would at some point have had to have had latin. There are so many words that come from latin that we use - therefore I think that Perplex City (and it's world) must have English, Latin and all other languages spoken within our world.

[Olorin]