The Experiment!

A renowned research institute undertakes an experiment to document the spatial-cognitive processes of intellectuals of various professions. They recruit an architect, a surgeon, and a props mistress. The construct three identical booths, totally isolated from external interactions or stimuli. They place one person in each booth, and give each a set of three perfectly identical steel balls, about three inches in diameter each. They seal the booths and return one week later.

The architect has constructed a geometrically perfect pyramid with the balls, yielding insights into the stress dynamics and materials tension.

The surgeon has placed the balls in a formation that hints at the nature of the unexplored region of the human genome, solving some fundamental questions involving genetics and DNA.

When the Prop's Mistresses booth is opened, the interior is in shambles, and there are no balls to be found. Upon inquiry, the props girl says "Okay, okay, I admit, I did lose the first ball, and I don't know exactly where the second one is, and besides, you only gave me two to begin with!"