h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Welcome back, jwf..

I'm afraid I can't accept any solution, be it correct or not, without the correct explanation..

Once again, the 5 hints link to 5 entities as described in the subject of my post.. loosehead mentioned 80% of one of the entities, you mentioned 100% of another one...

Somewhere in your post, anyway...

If that second word is what I think it is....

rats.

*confused* rats?

obviously you didn't watch school house rocks when you were a child. There's a song about interjections....of which "rats" would be among them. As in "rats! I thought I had the answer, but I didn't."

i think as in "don't know"?

Well, you can have a dogstar (cat), starfruit (apple), Neverland was third star on the right (or something like that) for Peter Pan...

Brain hurts. Must stop thinking...

OK... more hints coming, get them whilst they're fresh!!!

(1) I can only repeat it.... WATCH THE SUBJECT!! It's getting quite clear by now what it is...

(2) Hmm.... you can try telling us all associations you have with the 5 hints and I'll say how warm / cold you are... the closest so far were loosehead and jwf, though still quite remote...

I think the biggest clue you could get at th emoment is the subject title, PP keeps adding letters to help.

The only word I can get to fit...

Cats: Shroedinger
Stars: ?
Apples: Newton
Nutshells: ?
Peter Pan/Springs: ?

Great work, Justin... All you filled in is correct.....

Stars: Galileo perhaps? Or Copernicus?

Is the Peter Pan/springs reference anything to do with wave theory?

Nope... someone who studied law inspite of hating it, to fulfill his father's dying wish (I *think* that was right... )...

And no... no wave theory / wave-particle duality pun intended...

Erm........ shall we say... that's the one loosehead got 80% of...

Ah! Hooke!

3 down, 2 to go...

I've just had a looksie and there is wave theory mentioned and him backing someone elses wave theory, or something like that. most people wouldn't know him for that though..

And... ok... you keep learning new things.. So this person *does* have a wave theory connection, in fact, he backed Huygens' wave theory... sorry..

The rest of what I said is still correct..

heehee, i should really stop simposting you!

*grins* Correct... wow, you have the forum all to yourself..

Keep up the good work..

(triple simulpost... )