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Author Message   Thedarkknight Pilla Bewarse Username: Thedarkknight Post Number: 457 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 183.82.67.133 Rating:  Votes: 3 Posted on Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 5:19 pm:    Enter this thread only if you watched the movie (1) Why does Nasar and team depend on mahesh to solve the Rubic Cube puzzle? Answer: Mahesh's father teaches mahesh to end the rubic cube in a different way ( which mahesh gets addicted to solve in that way, this is 4 cubes of one colour in the middle surrounded by a different coloured cubes all over ) than the usual all coloured cubes on one side. You can observe this in the scene before the Nasar's men enter mahesh's house in hyderabad and couple of other scenes. Level 2 of the same question: Why can't Nasar's team come figure out all the possible endings of rubic cube roation and see if it gives any clues. Does he have to wait for 20 years to solve that puzzle via mahesh? Answer: The cube has 96 slots ( 16 * 6 sides ) to be filled by each smaller cube. So there are 96!(96 factorial) possible endings of the cube roation. 96! is 150 digits long. If you want definitive conclusion of solving the mystery you need to proceed systematically by starting at a known combination ( Say all the colours on one side ). And Note that there is only one bigger cube with the markings, So the combinations can't be tried parallely ( unless a copy is made with exactly the same markings on the all smaller cubes). Assuming that it takes "1" second to arrive at each combination ( which is highly impossible btw even with the highest IQ'ed person's brain ), to solve 150 digits long combinations, it takes 141/142 digit years ( 1 year = 8 digit seconds ). So yes, 20 years is not enough to solve the mystery in a systematic way. Level 3 of the same question: Why can't Nasar's team try it using a Super Computer by feeding the mystery cube into a program by taking the pics of it? Answer: Mahesh ( gautam ) was born in 1986 ( You can see this in his childhood dairy during the climax ) and nasar gets the cube when he's 6 years old...1992 was not a time when photo graphic processing by super computers was in use. You can again ask, that processing capability came much before 2012/2013 when mahesh's solves the mystery. A bit of cinematic liberty is taken here. Level 4 of the same question: How could mahesh arrive at the exact combination in such a short time? Remember There are still a big number of possible combinations ending the cube the way mahesh's father taught him ( 4 coloured cubes surronded by 12 cubes of a different colour ) Answer: Here you can imagine that sukumar has taken cinematic liberty.....( I am not sure if sukumar had thought about level 2 & Level 3 questions though, I just threw those scenarios and answered them ).