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

If you put a coin in an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck of the bottle, how could you remove the coin without taking the cork out or breaking the bottle?

You push the cork *into* the bottle

so true...or you could make a coin sized hole in the cork...
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Or you could distort space - stretch the space 'inside' the bottle, and shrink the space 'outside', so that the volume 'inside' becomes infinite, and the volume 'outside' becomes the same as what was originally 'inside'.

Since 'inside' and 'outside' are usually determined by the volumes being considered, the bottle is now effectively inside-out, and teh coin on the outside.

Of course, there is a down side to this approach - everything else ends up inside the bottle!

I like it!

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Push in the cork and shake the coin out.

Beam it out Scottie.

Well done Kristina... a point to you... ~grin~