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Signal's Time Machine - Solar Slingshot Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 4/1/2016
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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What if you were to travel back in time and Archive one of your cache listings before it was ever published?
What then happens to the logs on the cache listing before the moment you traveled back in time?
Does the cache dissolve out of existence because you stopped the cache from being published?
If you never allowed the cache to be published - how would you choose that cache listing in the future?
Who actually would have Archived the original cache listing?

Time travel is a serious business.
Time travel can often account for the appearance and disappearance of cache listings (and logs).

How do I know this?
I have access to Signal's Time Machine.

The "slingshot effect" or "light-speed breakaway factor" is a method of time travel achieved through the use of an artificially-created time warp.

In other words - if you travel at an extremely high rate of speed towards a massive body with a high gravitational attraction (such as a star), time travel is possible.

Gravitational pull will cause rapid acceleration to even faster speeds, resulting in a whiplash effect causing a jump through time.

Performing this maneuver requires extremely precise calculations which need to take fuel, mass and acceleration through a time continuum.

I have performed this feat in Signal's Time Machine on several occasions.
The most recent occurrence was in April of 2013.... 

 


This time (pun intended) I have hidden a cache in a single place -- but at different points in time.

In order to find the cache (and sign the log) you must first solve a puzzle; in this way I can be sure you are capable of handling complex mathematics. Once you have solved the puzzle you will not only have the true coordinates for the cache... you will also have the information you need when preparing for you trip around the most convenient interstellar entity.

If your calculations are accurate, your journey through space will not only lead you to the right place -- it will also lead you to the right time(s).

If your calculations are inaccurate... you may find yourself standing at a set of coordinates... at the wrong time.
(Note: Please avoid perspiration or any other activities that may alter your mass between the time you finish your calculations and the time that the solar slingshot actually commences).


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WARNING!Time travel is *not* easy, in spite of what you may have seen in the movies. If the people who solve this puzzle are not up to the task, I will not submit this listing for review yesterday so that it will never cause an issue tomorrows.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[If it gets really hot, really quickly - you messed up.]

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)