soaproot on Nostr: My intuition didn't immediately figure out what to do with "each ant in a pair ...

My intuition didn't immediately figure out what to do with "each ant in a pair follows a geodesic that lies a small distance to either side of the marked one, initially pointing in the same direction." (and in fact the illustration only shows one path per pair, I guess because figuring out where the other one lies is basically what the problem is about). Greg Egan (npub12cu…d38p)