Feb 28 2006
The Barn Paradox and Superluminal Communication
Discussions of superluminal communication and the paradoxes raised therein always involved unsatisfying (to me) examples about space ships and Andromeda and impending doom, but it turns out that the (real) paradoxes raised by superluminal communication can be easily merged with the Barn Paradox.
The Barn Paradox
Assume an Olympic-level sprinter with a 20m pole that, through dint [...]