World's best suggested paradox
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Sounds like something a calculus teacher would use to introduce the concept of limits (or whatever it's called in english, lim when x nears zero and whatnot)Squidden said:
Because 9 is an upside-down 6. So if I take something that is 6 pounds and turn it over, it gets heavier. Science!eggy32 said:
If you wanted to take it logically, 2 vampires at the north pole, at noon, in winter, back to back, shot each other with gun blades.samuraiash1991 said:One fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight, back to back they faced eachover, drew the swords and shot eachover.
best paradox story i know
How about this is multiplying by zero the same thing as not doing anything? No, because if you got 2 apples 0 times you wouldn't have any apples.Geekosaurus said:
Toast has been proven to fall unbuttered side down. Your paradox has been beaten!gummibear76 said:what happens if you glue some toast butter side up to the back of a cat, and then drop the cat?
OT:Okay I got one.
IF this sentence is true then it is false.
Uh...huh. The thing about the immovable object and the unstoppable force is that it is meant to describe two equal but opposing forces clashing, in which there are only three possible outcomes.
1: They clash for all eternity.
2: They destroy each other completely and simultaneously.
3: A third force intervenes, thereby changing the course of things, regardless of whether or not the third force survives.
Now, here are things to think about. I'm not sure if they're paradoxes, but I'll leave that to all of you.
Has anyone ever spoken Japanese with a British accent?
Why have they not made a orange-flavored Coca-Cola?
Would a rainy day constitute as a form of twilight?
1: They clash for all eternity.
2: They destroy each other completely and simultaneously.
3: A third force intervenes, thereby changing the course of things, regardless of whether or not the third force survives.
Now, here are things to think about. I'm not sure if they're paradoxes, but I'll leave that to all of you.
Has anyone ever spoken Japanese with a British accent?
Why have they not made a orange-flavored Coca-Cola?
Would a rainy day constitute as a form of twilight?
1) Absolutely, there's nothing about a language that forces a particular accent.Dragonpit said:
2) Because "Cola" is actually a flavor of soda. Cherry cola is a mix of a cherry flavor with a cola flavor. Orange added to cola would probably be unpopular.
3) No, because twilight is defined by the time of day, not merely by light being refracted.
You'll take the limit as x approaches the distance of the crosswalk.Squidden said:
...ninja'd, shoot.matt_newgrove said:
No.Qufang said:
He just told you he lies a lot.
The unstoppable force technically wins. The result is a black hole.Megawizard said:
The mistake is in assuming that the unstoppable force is linear.
Or, as C.S. Lewis put it, the question itself is pure nonsense. If God is omnipotent, by definition that means there is no rock He can't lift. The question is a semantic absurdity, like asking if God can draw a "square circle."blalien said:
That's a hairy thing to say...because you _will_ (mathematically proven) cross the sidewalk at infinite time.Nibbles said:
It's a question of semantics, perception of time, and other things that could (have, usually are, probably will be) be debated ad nausaeum; but according to the geometric series describing the crosswalk problem, you definitely will reach the other end of the sidewalk (assuming natural death of old age is not a factor).
Series is: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + .... = 1
but if you have them then you divided by 1Geekosaurus said:
if you have 2 apples and divide then by 0 then you have 0 groups of 2 apples and there fore nothing youve now deleted matter and broken the laws of physics
edit ot time traveler goes back in time and invents time travel before the original person