And then there is this problem...
Man on top of 200ft mountain with 150 ft. of rope and a knife. At 100ft., there is a hook and a place to stand. How does the man get to ground??
(Do post in u'r answers, even if they involve Mithun/Rajni type of jumps - Realistically though, one can jump 2ft. w/o needing a wheelchair for rest of life)
That absolute classic Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
has something to say about this in Chapter 22.
Here, he talks about Henri Poincare - philosopher, mathematician, astronomer
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Poincaré proceeded to examine these critically. Which facts are you going to observe? he asked. There is an infinity of them. There is no more chance that an unselective observation of facts will produce science than there is that a monkey at a typewriter will produce the Lord's Prayer.
The same is true of hypotheses. Which hypotheses? Poincaré wrote, "If a phenomenon admits of a complete mechanical explanation it will admit of an infinity of others which will account equally well for all the peculiarities disclosed by experiment."
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(we can try an infinity of possible "solutions" - but how to get to the one that works??)
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Then Poincaré illustrated how a fact is discovered. He had described generally how scientists arrive at facts and theories but now he penetrated narrowly into his own personal experience with the mathematical functions that established his early fame.
For fifteen days, he said, he strove to prove that there couldn't be any such functions. Every day he seated himself at his work-table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results.
Then one evening, contrary to his custom, he drank black coffee and couldn't sleep. Ideas arose in crowds. He felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
The next morning he had only to write out the results. A wave of crystallization had taken place.
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I struggled with the rope for 2-3 days and on the next day I decided I would not *try* and gave it up and sat there, unthinking
Suddenly the visual solution just flashed for a split second with an "Of course!!". what was left for me was just to verify it.
So, instead of crying over it, maybe you want to try scrying, a la Kekule?
All the best!
