Within the tower is yet another library, but this one is a trap — three books referencing each other endlessly, creating a loop you cannot escape unless you break it. Time runs differently here, stretching your minutes into hours.
Question:
You enter a library where books rewrite themselves. Book A references Book B, Book B references Book C, and Book C references Book A, creating an infinite loop. If each reference takes 3 minutes to read, and you must read all references exactly once to break the loop, how long will it take? But here’s the temporal twist: time moves at half speed in this loop. How long does it actually take in normal time?
Hint: “Trace the loop once—three doors, one lap—then step back outside where the clocks don’t slog through syrup but sprint. Inside minutes stretch; outside, they double.”