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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: The strong force (was: Re: Rubik's Cube Problem)
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Date: 24 Dec 89 07:25:07 GMT
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In article <1639@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rp@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Richard Pavelle) writes:
>In article <5310@garfield.MUN.EDU>, chris2@garfield.MUN.EDU (Chris Paulse) writes:
>> If I had a solved Rubik's cube, and the colors on each face were
>> just stickers on the black plastic surface, if I exchanged some
>> of the stickers, would the cube still be solvable in the normal way?
>
>Nope. For example you could change two edge cubie colors and it could
>not be solved from that position.

Sure you can.  Used to do it all the time.

There's a little known method of solving the cube from this position that
makes a good analogy with the effects of the strong nuclear force on
particle symmetry.