In a huge room lives a very hungry ant. The room is 4 meters wide, 4 meters high and 10 meters long. The ant is on one of the 4x4-meter walls, right in the middle (2 meters from each of the 4x10-meter walls), and 1 meter from the ceiling. Its food is on the opposite wall, also in the middle, but 1 meter from the floor. The poor ant is very hungry, and won't be able to walk more than 13.99 meters without dropping dead. Can it survive?
(The ant cannot fly, jump etc.)
Edit: I really must learn to read comments!
I'll replace my comment with an equally dumb one. If the ant
takes the original 14m course, but travels at 0.866 times the speed of
light, it will have only travelled 7m and will still be alive!
Edited on January 21, 2005, 6:24 pm
Trick perhaps?
