Author Topic: Post your Paradoxes here!  (Read 630 times)

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Tell me your favorite paradoxes! I'll go first.

Ship of Theseus: In this paradox, you are a sailor, and you are on a ship going across the sea to some place. On your journey, your ship falls apart, and you happened to bring all of the identical parts to replace the ship. As parts of your ship fall off / break, you replace the part with an identical part. By the end of the journey, you've replace every single part of the ship with identical parts. So.. is the ship you ended on, the same ship that you started on..? Let's add another layer to it. You go back into the ocean, retrace every single part that fell off of your ship, and rebuild the ship exactly the same as the 'original' ship. Is the ship you rebuilt with the fallen parts the original ship, or is it the one that you completely repaired. Possibly neither? There's no correct answer, because it's a paradox. :D

if two dogs run into each other fast enough can they morph into a bigger dog
paradoxed


The grandfather paradox

Example:

if you went back in time, wouldn't you technically go back to a time when you hadn't traveled back into time, therefore killing your back-in-time state?
what would happen to the "you" in the other time periods?

insert generic this statement is false and other variations here

Does a set of all sets contain itself?

Is "no" the answer to this question?

The teacher teaches the student who teaches the teacher.

This sentence is false.


insert generic this statement is false and other variations here
^ false

The future WILL be changed!
You'll create a TIME PARADOX!


That one paradox about a heap of sand



The grandfather paradox
crazy paradox. wow.

there are some reason time travel is "limited"

if someone lies literally every time they say something, and then confess "everything I say is a lie", then that would be true. If its true then not EVERYTHING they say is a lie. That makes the confession a lie. Which would make it true again