What is closer: the ball in the box or outsite it?

Question

Imagine a small box and two smaller balls. One is in the box and the other, out (pretty close to a border of it).

Which one is nearer to the box?

Tnx!

Answer 1

Nearer to means a ball in the vicinity of the box but not in it.
Nearer to any side of the box would mean the ball that is touching a side of the box. In that case it does not matter if the ball is inside or outside the box. In science you have to be careful how the question is asked.

Answer 2

i would imagine the one outside of the box because the ball inside is inside it, not near it. so the ball outside is closer to the box

Answer 3

In an "astronomy" context, it is the one inside. The Sun (inside the Galaxy) is closer to the Galaxy than any star that is outside the Galaxy.

A body inside the solar system is closer to the solar system than any body outside the solar system.

Answer 4

She said to me Astronomy and Space?

Obviously the one outside; the one inside is inside, so it cannot be considered nearest the box as it is inside.

Astronomy and Space I replied.

Answer 5

is this a riddle?
like, you imagine them so how can they be closer to anything

but if this is real
the ball inside
if it's in the box then it's touching and you don't get much closer than that

Answer 6

I say the one inside.

It that really an Astronomy & Space question?

Answer 7

have you notice the diffrence ?