Author Topic: Paradoxes. (Read 14275 times)

Acolyptor · August 06, 2010, 11:23:49 PM

Quote from: keonesan on August 06, 2010, 11:05:45 PM

Does this count as a paradox?

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Welknair · August 06, 2010, 11:27:45 PM

Quote from: Niliscro on August 06, 2010, 09:34:10 PM

Actually, it well never reach a perfect 1. But this makes sense, since two nuclei of an atom never touch, they're only bound or repelled by electromagnetic forces and stuff. So basically, it never touches the ground, but hovers slightly above it.

Quote from: Welknair on August 06, 2010, 07:14:22 PM

Along the same lines, the pencil one is incorrect. There's a thing called the "Planck length". It is the minimum distance and cannot be divided. It's like a pixel.

As for the number thing, it will NEVER reach 1. NEVER. It will only approximate it. It goes on infinitely getting infinitesimally close but never reaching it.

Tom Gunn · August 06, 2010, 11:31:45 PM

Quote from: keonesan on August 06, 2010, 11:05:45 PM

Does this count as a paradox?

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oromis · August 06, 2010, 11:33:47 PM

Not much of a paradox, but:

Numbers are infinite, and so are decimals. The decimal -4 hours, 59 minutes, 59.11 seconds- moves on to -4 hours 59 minutes 59.111 seconds-. If decimals are infinite, that number will continue to grow and grow. We are always in the same second.

I kind of made sense of it when it was said, but if you think about it for a few weeks straight it should come across as a paradox.

Rookie · August 06, 2010, 11:35:29 PM

Quote from: oromis on August 06, 2010, 11:33:47 PM

Not much of a paradox, but:

Numbers are infinite, and so are decimals. The decimal -4 hours, 59 minutes, 59.11 seconds- moves on to -4 hours 59 minutes 59.111 seconds-. If decimals are infinite, that number will continue to grow and grow. We are always in the same second.

I kind of made sense of it when it was said, but if you think about it for a few weeks straight it should come across as a paradox.

And therefore means infinity can be divided by 10.

BadMushrooms · August 06, 2010, 11:44:24 PM

you know. the pinnochio one isnt a paradox.

if he says "my nose will grow"

hes talking future tense, so...
it means his nose WILL grow.
not nessecarily as soon as he says that sentence.