Here's another one. What's this riddle about?

The more you use, the more you have
And yet you always have the same number.
At least until the set from Belgium tears you asunder.

Quote from: j0hny on April 26, 2015, 10:27 PM
What's wrong with this picture? What item is wrong which course should not be there?

I was gonna say the lamp since cats have excellent night vision, but then I saw in the video there's a human living there too. So I dunno, I'm stumped.

Quote from: Komito on February 15, 2015, 11:48 PM
Bloopy - Author of blamethepixel.com

That was ZoGgEr! I was just user #4 to sign up and eventually became an admin there. I did 'author' some of the pages there, but wasn't one of the ones who did a significant amount of programming.

I always liked the history of which Wormers came up with which schemes. One day I should put some of the info from my website back online.

Cool, could be a good place to launch a worm farming business from!

Quote from: Rok on October 11, 2014, 07:26 PM
Redshift?

Quote from: DarkOne on October 10, 2014, 06:02 PM
If you just explained the last bit, you are saying almost exactly the same thing I did! That's like me saying you were wrong in your answer because it wasn't a nice space shuttle, but the last space shuttle

But why would you actually have to have something change from violet to red light or vice versa, just for you to know how far away from each other they are in the spectrum? Can't you just look at the spectrum regardless? If it's that difficult, I could try wording it "A shift from one to the other reveals how far away." 

Quote from: DarkOne on October 10, 2014, 10:19 AM
Bloopy, sure I did, they are far apart on the visible spectrum, the difference would be one in wave length 340 nm for red and 750nm for violet (if I recall correctly).

Nope, I'm telling you this part is still unsolved! You've got that they look like they belong together, but they're not because they're at opposite ends of the visible spectrum.

"A change from one to the other reveals how far away."

Quote from: DarkOne on October 09, 2014, 10:55 PM
red light and violet light (red light is the friend of infrared as they are close together in terms of energy, violet is totally gay, the colours share similaries with regards to RGB values, but they are far apart in the visible spectrum)

Correctamundo! Though you didn't explain the change from one to the other part.

Quote from: DarkOne on October 09, 2014, 10:55 PM
Infrared isn't really visible either!

The riddle just says the two look like they belong together. It never said anything about the hot friend having any appearance whatsoever.

Quote from: DarkOne on October 09, 2014, 12:14 AM
What about photons of different wave lengths? Light is one part of the spectrum (rainbow spectrum, totally gay!), the other's friend could be infrared (totally hot) and the other side of the spectrum would be X-rays and gamma rays. The distance would be one of energy level, but the fact that they're all electromagnetic waves suggests they belong together.

Almost there! You got the hot part right, but x-rays and gamma rays don't look like... well, anything. Except perhaps Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man.

Quote from: LeTotalKiller on October 08, 2014, 11:53 AM
Hmm... is it the Sun ("the other's friend"), the Earth ("the other") and the Moon ("the first one")?

Quote from: Bloopy on October 01, 2014, 12:15 AM
none of them are stars.

Think tiny, like the protons and electrons. Here's some clues that might help if you want:

Spoiler! View

The 3 entities are all the same type of thing, just with different properties.

Spoiler! View

Hopefully this is obvious when thinking of tiny things, but there would of course need to be a significant enough quantity of the thing for you to see the 2 things that look like they belong together, or feel that the 3rd one is hot.

Quote from: DarkOne on October 07, 2014, 07:32 PM
This was a photo I took myself from the airplane, no tricks, no photo shop. I used a digital camera.

Then there was motion involved at the time of the photo, because your camera was moving at 100s of km/h relative to the subject matter, albeit irrelevant. Nice space shuttle though.

Quote from: DarkOne on October 07, 2014, 07:32 PM
Hmm. Are they people? Or fictional characters?

No, nothing like that. I'll say that Rok's electron/proton idea was the closest so far.

So is it a photo of a photo? I recognise the airport. Is it special because of who originally took it? Or what it's printed on? Or who was at the airport at the time?

Quote from: DarkOne on October 05, 2014, 06:12 PM
Bloopy: are the 3 entities abstracts?

No. That should be a helpful clue!

Quote from: avirex on October 03, 2014, 11:12 PM
you leave home, you take 3 left turns only to return home, and find 2 men in masks..

who/what are you?

In my case, a bad driver. I just drove the wrong way on a one way street.

Incorrect but nice try. To help narrow it down you could ask yes/no questions.

Quote from: Aerox on October 02, 2014, 07:26 AM
you've presented 3 entities in this sentence, am I right? The kinda gay, the other, and the other's friend.

That's correct.

Quote from: Aerox on October 02, 2014, 07:26 AM
They look like they belong together, but they're not. but they're not what? surely the correct syntax is "but they don't"?

They're not together. Saying "but they don't" opens up the (admittedly unlikely) possibility I was meaning They look like they belong together, but they don't look like they belong together. Compare to "They look weird, but they're not" vs "They look weird, but they don't". You would only say the latter if you intended to speak a contradiction, eg. if each is true but from different viewpoints or ways of thinking.

Nice theory with the formula! Still very nope, no formula knowledge needed.