Can you solve the time travel riddle? - Dan Finkel

Can you solve the time travel riddle? - Dan Finkel with tags ted, ted-ed, ted ed, teded, ted education, dan finkel, artrake studio, riddles, problem solving, ramsey theory, time travel

Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/Solution to bonus riddle: https://brilliant.org/TedEdTimeTravel/Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. Youve got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to create a new portal to open a doorway through time. Can you take the right amount of nodules to get back to the present before the portal closes? Dan Finkel shows how.Lesson by Dan Finkel, directed by Artrake Studio. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible: fatima kried, Begum Tutuncu, Lala Arguelles, Mehmet Sencer KARADAYI, Christian Kurch, SungGyeong Bae, Luis Felipe Ruiz Langenscheidt, Joe Huang, Rohan Gupta, Senjo Limbu, Martin Lau, Robson Martinho, Cailin Ramsey, Aaron Henson, John Saveland, Nicolle Fieldsend-Roxborough, ReuniteKorea, Venkat Venkatakrishnan, QIUJING L BU, Yoga Trapeze Wanderlust, Jaron Blackburn, Alejandro Cachoua, Thomas Mungavan, Edla Paniguel, Anna-Pitschna Kunz, Tim Armstrong, Erika Blanquez, Ricki Daniel Marbun, zjweele13, Judith Benavides, Ken, James Bruening, Michael Braun-Boghos, Ricardo Diaz, Kack-Kyun Kim, Artem Minyaylov, Danny Romard, Yujing Jiang, Stina Boberg, Anthony Wiggins, Hoai Nam Tran, Joe Sims, David Petrovi, Chris Adriaensen, Lowell Fleming, Sunny Patel, Vijayalakshmi , Uday Kishore, Aidan Forero and Leen Mshasha.