Is impossibility possible?

[Agayek]

So, what you're actually saying, is that it's possible for a staggeringly large amount of energy and mass, plus an incidental brick, to turn into an elephant? Keep in mind that in order for that to work, you would need to extract 2,400 times as much mass/energy as is contained in the brick in order to get up to the correct mass. That's hardly turning the brick into an elephant, that's more like turning all that extra mass into an elephant and throwing a brick in there for fun.

Sure why not. All I'm saying is that it is, in fact, possible to start with a brick and end with an elephant.

 

[thedestro]

No. There are many things that are impossible, not because it's unlikly, but because it truly cannot be done:

You cannot eat your own head
You cannot fall upwards
You cannot create a perpetual motion machine
You cannot make heat travel from a cold thing to a hot thing
You cannot make 1+1=4 (in conventional maths)

What you have said is right, but only concerning things within the metaphorical rulebook of the universe. The things I have said are impossible, either because they are logically paradoxes or because they break the laws of physics.

This would, of course, be true for very large values of 1.

 

[xxnightlawxx]

impossible is just a word used to explain the meaning of unimaginably unthinkable of happening i think that makes sense but oh well who cares when you are talking about philosophy every thing makes sense no matter what it is like 2+2=FISH which is possible

Only is FISH is algebra representing an equation which equates to the value of 4.

ah true but in a world where fish equates also to 2+2
fish also has to equate to 4 so yes sir u r right but what if fish did not equate to 4
then what

 

[SilentHunter7]

*stuff*

You're right, but you could've saved a lot of time if you just invoked Quantum Mechanics

 

[Sonny B]

Yeah I believe that nothing is impossible parallel or not you just have to find the way to make it work etc for all we know time machines could be made... Sounds impossible but meh

 

[Valiance]

Even with an infinite time span, you make it sound like certain events won't affect other events.

For example, there's a chance that humanity expands and spans galaxies.
However, there's also a chance that humanity annihilates itself, with, say, high-tech warfare.

If B happens, A will not.

Given an infinite time-span, you also need a controlled environment, which your OP doesn't have.

 

[xxnightlawxx]

impossible is just a word used to explain the meaning of unimaginably unthinkable of happening i think that makes sense but oh well who cares when you are talking about philosophy every thing makes sense no matter what it is like 2+2=FISH which is possible

Only is FISH is algebra representing an equation which equates to the value of 4.

ah true but in a world where fish equates also to 2+2
fish also has to equate to 4 so yes sir u r right but what if fish did not equate to 4
then what

Well, if you could prove to me that 4 =/= 4 you would become my hero.
Until then however I would politely insist you are wrong.

im not really good at math i just like ranting on about stuff like this that would be cool though i will think about it