Is it possible for an environmental puzzle to be no longer solvable?
I'm playing The Witness for the first time. I've discovered the "environmental puzzles", but I have also found something that seems like it would be one, but is uncompletable given the current game state:
In the starting area, there is a glowing column that you eventually turn off along with the forcefield to allow exiting the area. I now think this was very likely an environmental puzzle and I would have been able to align the glowing column with the sun as the start of the path. But I can't find a way to reactivate the column.
Are there any environmental puzzles that can be rendered uncompletable?
Is the one I have referred to in the spoiler blocks one of them?
If not, then could you provide a hint as to how it should be completed despite the seemingly missing essential ingredient?
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Solution 1:
Yes they're all possible. That one in particular is extremely special.
Minor spoilers:
It becomes possible to reset it later in the game
Major spoilers!
After beating the game, you find a way of turning that column back on, which leads to the secret ending