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| Topic | How do you scientifically explain this paradox? |
| Robot2600 09/12/23 6:05:05 PM #9: | this is called Zeno's paradox, after the ancient Greek philosopher
from a modern perspective, nothing would be able to move 1/2 of a plank distance, just like a pixel on a screen can't be outside the grid. so the problem can't actually exist in reality: it's impossible to build infinite checkpoints. At some point your checkpoints would be 3 plank lengths apart, then the last one fills in the middle. You physically cannot add anymore. on paper, with math, obviously you can. but that's just it, a math problem: and calculus gives us the means to think about it. It's something like the equation to calculate the number "e" limit x -> x / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 ... or the limit of x as 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 ... it's the equivalent of saying "o you can't go around a circle cause pi never ends" it's really just kinda dumb imo calculus is the solution, you are just calculating, arbitrarily, some kind of natural ratio curve. --- --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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