There was once a man named Harold. Harold was from England. The king would always get upset with Harold because it seemed like Harold never failed at anything and the king was jealous.
So one day, the king was determined to prove Harold a failure. He drew a line across the floor. He said:
"Harold, make this line shorter. You may not erase it in any way".
Harold said
"No problem your highness".
And he made the line shorter.
How is this possible?
(In reply to
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one of those funky relativity effects is that an objects length is in fact dependant on its reference frame (ie how fast it is moving compared to its surroundings), sometimes referred to as length difraction(?). I don't understand the theory well enough myself to apply it, simply enough to know that it can create a solution. If I had to guess, I would say that moving the king (with respect to the line), would make the line shorter in the Kings reference frame, but I could be backwards here.
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