04-02-2025, 11:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2025, 11:59 AM by Mark Knowles.)
(04-02-2025, 05:27 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I cannot agree more with Rene. Offering a large prize would work if only dedicated researchers are attracted. But we all know that wouldn't be the case.
How do we all know that dedicated researchers won't be attracted?
Do you think the offer of a $1 million prize for the decipherment of the Indus Valley script is a mistake?
Do you think all the many other prizes offered for solution to problems are a mistake?
If you do think that other prizes are valuable then why is the Voynich manuscript uniquely different?
Ultimately, if someone wants to put up the money for a prize then there will be a prize as it is their choice. At the moment nobody has, so such a prize does not exist.