Consider runners on a circular track of unit length. At , all runners are at the same position and start to run and the runners' speeds are pairwise distinct. A runner is said to be lonely at time if they are at a distance of at least along the track from every other runner at time .
Will every runner be lonely at some time?
Bonus: What about runners and lonely means they are at a distance of at least from every other runner?
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely runner conjecture .