
Imagine there's a man with a lamp. A MAGICAL man. With a magical lamp. Or woman. Whatever you prefer. Anyway, he turns his lamp on. A minute later, he turns his lamp off. At 1:30, he turns it back on. At 1:45, he turns it back off. At 1:52.5, he turns it back on.
You get it? He halfs the time every switch.
What state will the lamp be in at 2 minutes?
Zeno once said, "at any given time, a moving object is actually at rest. Therefore, motion is impossible."
That means that at any given time, you are actually not moving, therefore, how can you move?
Imagine you run 10 meters per second. And you're racing a turtle that runs 1 meter per second. You give the turtle a 100 meter head start. After 10 seconds, you're at 100 meters, and the turtle is at 110.
After 11 seconds, you're at 110 meters, and the turtle is at 11.
After 11.1 seconds, you're at 111 meters, and the turtle is at 111.1
When will you catch the turtle?
A hangman tells his condemned prisoner that he will be hung one day next week, and that it will be a surprise.
The prisoner concludes that he will not be hung on Friday, because if he hasn't been hung by Thursday, it won't be a surprise.
He also concludes that he won't be hung by Thursday, as if he isn't hung by Wednesday, then it won't be a surprise, as he can't be hung on Friday.
He continues back with this through wednesday, tuesday, and monday, and concludes he won't be hung,
What day would he actually be hung?
Did you know that it is physically impossible to cut a circle into 7 completely even pie-shaped pieces?
On the subatomic level, electrons can move places without ever crossing the distance in between.
If you think about it, numbers do not exist, neither does math. All math is just an abstraction.
Every person in the human race is descendant of an african woman called "Mitochondrial Eve"
The sentence below this tells the truth.
The sentence above is a lie.
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Why did you do that? Now my
Why did you do that? Now my brain hurts :D
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck
I did it because
I think it's interesting.
What is the square root of negative one?
"Words are useless, especially sentences. They don't stand for anything. How can they explain how I feel?"~Madonna, Bedtime Story
Good. When I get ready to
Good. When I get ready to design my space-folding and wormhole stabilizing apparatuses for Starlander, I'll know just who to recruit. @_@
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"bringing strong gay & lesbian characters to Sci-Fi & Fantasy"
A nascent scientist
You're quite correct... your finding these (apparent) paradoxes interesting, is all the explanation required!
Please, never cease your daily search... and always strive to understand where/why common sense doesn't always work!
You remind me of someone I knew quite intimately in another lifetime:-)
i A man is educated and
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck
Ok,
It is i, but still. I is a variable that cannot be expressed. Neither can pi, or any other irrational number. The decimal will continue forever.
It seems like such a small stumbling block. We can calculate this number, and yet we still cannot know exactly what it is.
Mathematicians found a while ago a new prime number with over 10,000,000 digits. That number is so large it is meaningless. We cannot comprehend it, nor can we i, nor pi.
"Words are useless, especially sentences. They don't stand for anything. How can they explain how I feel?"~Madonna, Bedtime Story
Hmmmm
I love this stuff. I wish philosopher was a feasible career choice. ______________________
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
I like the way your head
I like the way your head works. And this is also the kind of thing that convinces me that although I may be fascinated by math and science and questions of the universe, and even have a pretty damn good left brain, my right brain is gonna win in the long run.
-KBO-
lol why even bother with
lol why even bother with math, when Impulse serves most of the human race so well?
"Please hear what I'm not saying. Don't be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a mask. I tell you everything thats really nothing, and nothing of whats everything, of whats crying within me." - Mask
There's a reason I love you.
Logically defying logic.
There is a pole that nothing can move, and it cannot break. It is the immovable object.
There is a stone that nothing can stop, and it can only move in a straight line. It is an unstoppable force.
What happens when the stone hits the pole?
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I love you.
lol well guess what. I CAN
lol well guess what. I CAN ANSWER THAT ONE! Its Love.
Oasian coupples: JMY and BD(the awesome sisters of mine), Tops and Swim(Logicaly Illogical), Wolf and Ferret(the random spazes), Jeffers and Pat(the parents of the group), and any others I left out feel free to shout them out!
"Please hear what I'm not saying. Don't be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a mask. I tell you everything thats really nothing, and nothing of whats everything, of whats crying within me." - Mask
*passes out* I'm not worthy
*passes out*
I'm not worthy ;A;
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Sometimes I like to sit at night and stare at the lamppost because it's the brightest thing in my life...
Oh! I have one! The amount
Oh! I have one!
The amount of numbers is infinite. the amount of prime numbers is a tiny fraction of the amount of all number. Still, the amount of prime numbers is infinite.. think about this. It's fun. ^^
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