Tuesday, 2 August 2016

riddle - Here's a little cryptogram I wrote, you might want to read it letter for letter


Mage's birth seems important. That's all I'm going to say.


J EJPL QW VFIUQT UXWUTH YOSWSUV, HIU Q JQ PIAX PN HSV.


BQIZ BQMKS R QBG WSU MGMTB,


JRE IV E CQC ASWWK JV CLF PNEE QO M EW.


R EN I KMU JRTPTJV, TWVIUQVIT KQESURRH IWH PBQIS BRQFA FIJZM,


WPUNXJUNW J TROF JNMOO YIFZ PCOB,


BSNMCMNMB M XIWX UW UYSS RR UPN FFVCLJK HSOM


Also, if I completely messed up the encryption, don't get too mad....



Oh, yeah. And when you've decrypted that, you've got to solve the riddle. :-)


If anyone (who is bothering with the riddle) is having trouble, maybe read below... It may or may not help.



Not really that important... Now I'm getting all science-y on you!




Answer



I think the answer to the riddle found by Tryth and TheWamts is



a QUARK.




I walk in realms mostly unknown



Realms of subatomic particles.



yet I am part of you.



Quarks are what makes up everything, including your body.



They think I may not exist and am a bit wrong in the heaz.




For a long time after the existence of quarks was postulated, many people didn't believe in them.



If I doz am a bit bipolar,



Up and down quarks.



sometimes charming and other times weird.



Charm and strange quarks.




Sometimes I like being Peer Gynt, sometimes I want to lurk in the Benthic Zone.



Truth and beauty quarks maybe? Or a reference to the word Quark being used in a German play Peer Gynt, according to d'alar'cop.



I got this idea by reading "I am part of you. They think I may not exist" and recalling the following joke:



"Legally speak­ing, how can you kidnap something that is not supposed to exist? I doubt anyone ever accused Murray Gell-Mann of kidnapping a quark, even though he knowingly carried a billion of them around in his pocket." - Minerva Paradizo, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony



(quoted from memory - if I got the words slightly wrong, do correct me!) The "sometimes charming and other times weird" was the confirmation I needed for this guess.


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