The sculpture is called 'The Shining Wheels' and depicts 2 crossed mining pit wheels as a reminder that this park was once coal mining land before it was rejuvenated as a country park.
In order to find this cache you must enter into the world of Einstein and allow your mind to travel through time and space, looking at things in a new light, contemplating things from a different angle and discovering clues which unlock the very numbers of the universe.
Below is a puzzle which contains all the elements of the universe you'll need; all the stars, the planets, the wormholes, the red dwarfs and the remnants of the big bang itself. It will test your knowledge of Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Mathematics, Languages and general detective skills. Study the star charts well and utilise your lateral thinking to let you picture the whole cosmos before you. Make it so.
Well done to WHyvNa who boldly went where no one had gone before to claim the FTF.
The puzzle itself may take a little solving so I have set the difficulty level accordingly, although for some of you it will be as easy as A B C, or for others it will look like E=MC2. Much like star-gazing you might find that if you stare hard enough then constellations appear before your eyes (or everything looks blank for hours and then the sun comes up!)There is a geo-checker at the bottom of the page to check if your calculations are correct before you set off on your voyage star-trekking across the universe to retrieve the actual cache, just so you don't wander off course and get sucked into a black hole. The cache is a small container hidden at Holmebrook Valley Park, with only enough space for the (captain's) log. It may be slightly covered by a few leaves as well as its own decoy camouflage. Please take care of low branches and potential spiky things when retrieving the cache, and leave it hidden as you found it. Don't forget to log your mission afterwards to prove that you have actually materialised at this specific time and relative dimension in space. Feel free to leave any space exploration themed comments in your logs, although I request there be no spoilers given to solving the puzzle.
The location of the cache is at:
N 53° AB.CDE W 1° FG.HIJ
The Puzzle:
A long time ago
in a galaxy not far far away......
(here in our very own current galaxy in fact)......
there was one theoretical physicist and wannabe space traveller
called Einstein.
He postulated many incredible theories of time, space and relativity, earning
a nobel prize in 1921 for his services to theoretical physics- not bad for a man who
started his working life in the city of Bern as a clerk in a patent office.
Fans of science fiction should be grateful to him and give him a cheer or two for opening up thinking about space, time-travel, relativity and the speed of light. Collaboration with others helped him to produce a model of wormholes, which are a fascination within sci-fi to be able to jump from one planet to others or even other solar systems at what would effectively be faster than the speed of light (if travelling by normal propulsion to that same destination) leaving our little '3rd rock from the sun.'
Imagine if you could visit giants like Jupiter (the 5th planet from our sun) and gaze out of the spaceship window to see the planet's colourful gas clouds swirling around. Galaxies normally light years away could be explored via a wormhole in the same afternoon, setting off at 12pm on your Deepspace7 spaceship and being back in time for dinner at 4:30.
If you are having difficulties solving this puzzle it may look and work differently on different web browsers or devices, although I would recommend looking at it on a computer browser rather than smaller tablet or phone screen. You will also need an internet connection to solve this puzzle.
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