The Paradox Thread

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Paradoxs are odd things. They should have an obvious answer, but they don't.

What? That's really all there is to them - I can't write much more than that. Well, I could, but it would be both scientific and copy-pasta'd from Wikipedia.

Anyway... what do you think of this, one that I thought of in a dull physics lesson:

Name: The Teapot Paradox
Scenario: I am 10, and a future version of myself steps through a portal and hands me a teapot. Inside is this note: 'When you are 50, time travel will be possible. Hand this intact to your 10 year old self'.
Question: Where does the teapot come from? How old is it?

I imagine there is a real, better known paradox along similar lines but I haven't heard of it. But, I was wondering if there were any smart people out there who would be able to answer any of the questions - I, sadly, have limited brain power. Or, if you'd like, leave your own, then let other people attempt to answer these questions!

 

[happysock]

The teapot comes from tesco

 

[Epitome]

Get a strip of paper

On one side write
"the sentence on the other side of this strip is true"

On the other
"the sentence on the other side of this strip is false"

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Is "no" the answer to this question?

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Is "no" the answer to this question?

Perhaps.

 

[cartzo]

what do think of this one.

the ponocchio paradox:
ponocchio sais, "my nose will now get bigger".
so what happens to his nose?

 

[PureChaos]

is reality just someone else's and when that person wakes up, will we no longer exist?

 

[Ciarang]

Argh mindfuck

 

[Upturned Walrus]

Dogs rule Cats
Cats rule Mice
Mice rule Cows
Cows rule Dogs

?

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Dogs rule Cats
Cats rule Mice
Mice rule Cows
Cows rule Dogs

?

Show me a cow-ruling mouse and I'll believe this one.

 

[tanfew]

@ Gilbert Munch--or better yet, maybe.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

"I'm sitting in a laundromat reading about myself sitting in a laundromat reading about myself. My head hurts." -Dean Winchester

 

[Snowalker]

what do think of this one.

the ponocchio paradox:
ponocchio sais, "my nose will now get bigger".
so what happens to his nose?

It'll explode.

 

[BuckminsterF]

Get a strip of paper

On one side write
"the sentence on the other side of this strip is true"

On the other
"the sentence on the other side of this strip is false"

Both Sentences are half true: http://www.tzingaro.com/artelectric/aboutFuzzyLogic.html

 

[Ristoril]

X=X+1<0 lol math

 

[Cavouku]

I don't want to see any of these 'If you could anything could you do something you couldn't do' stuff.

If you can do anything, that includes defying logic.

 

[Malkavian]

All timetravel that involves changing something intentionally in the past you visit, is essentially a paradox. If you change something, it will not have been as it used to be before you were born, thus eliminating the need for you to change it, so you don't, and it suddenly is again, and you have to change it, etc.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Paradoxs are odd things. They should have an obvious answer, but they don't.

What? That's really all there is to them - I can't write much more than that. Well, I could, but it would be both scientific and copy-pasta'd from Wikipedia.

Anyway... what do you think of this, one that I thought of in a dull physics lesson:

Name: The Teapot Paradox
Scenario: I am 10, and a future version of myself steps through a portal and hands me a teapot. Inside is this note: 'When you are 50, time travel will be possible. Hand this intact to your 10 year old self'.
Question: Where does the teapot come from? How old is it?

I imagine there is a real, better known paradox along similar lines but I haven't heard of it. But, I was wondering if there were any smart people out there who would be able to answer any of the questions - I, sadly, have limited brain power. Or, if you'd like, leave your own, then let other people attempt to answer these questions!

The Question is piss simple the teapot comes from the same place the future version of you did. It is as old as the rest of the universe's matter. If you mean when was it forged into a pot then + 40 years - age of tea pot. Why would it not be ?

Only when I reach 40, I give it back to my 10 year old self. In escence, it creates itself. I think you're missing something from that. It goes in a loop forever and ever, in that when it reaches 40 (in it's current life, but that's something else) it is handed back to me when I am 10, and the cycle starts again.

 

[AkJay]

In order to be free, we must have rules and regulations.

 

[DannyBoy451]

Dogs rule Cats
Cats rule Mice
Mice rule Cows
Cows rule Dogs

?

THEN WHO WAS PHONE!?!?