Red Queen's race

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The Red Queen race was the incident that appeared in Lewis Carroll and involved Red Queen, Queen's representation in chess, and Alice kept running but left in the same place.

"Well, in our country," Alice said, still breathless, "you will usually go somewhere else - if you run very fast for a long time, as we do."

"A rather slow country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes everything you can do, to stay in the same place.If you want to get somewhere else, you have to run at least two times faster than that!"

The Red Queen race is often used to describe a similar situation:

• In evolutionary biology, to illustrate that sexual reproduction and the resulting genetic recombination may be sufficient to allow individuals of a particular species to adapt to changes in their environment - see the Red Queen hypothesis.
• As an illustration of the relativistic effect that no one can reach the speed of light, or invariant speed; in particular, with respect to the relativistic effects on light from galaxies near the observable edges of the universe, or on the horizon of black hole events.
• Isaac Asimov uses it in his short story "The Red Queen's Race" to illustrate the concept of the paradox of predestination.
• In environmental sociology, to illustrate Allan Schnaiberg's concept of Production Treadmill in which perpetrators are constantly encouraged to accumulate capital and expand markets in an effort to maintain a relative economic and social position.
• Vernor Vinge uses it in his novel Rainbows End to illustrate the struggle between pushing technological advances and protecting the world from new weapon technology.

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