World's best suggested paradox

[grimsprice]

Blah blah blah unstoppable stuff and immovable object stuff.

The object would have to contain infinite mass in order for a given force to not move it at all. If an object existed with infinite mass, the entire universe would implode instantly due to its infinite gravity.

If you magically stabalize the universe, and then fling another object at it that cannot be stopped (which would again be something with infinite energy) the two would collide and obliterate each other. The resulting release of energy would slowly disintegrate the whole universe.

 

[Sinspiration]

Has anyone asked this one?
"Military Intelligence."

 

[The Big Eye]

Either there is hope for humanity or there isn't. And yet, we live in a world that is home to both Ke$ha and Stephen Colbert. How can this be explained?

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

I say it again what's

1. The
2. Smallest
3. Number
4. Not
5. Nameable
6. In
7. Under
8. Ten
9. Words?

1. The
2. Smallest
3. Number
4. In
5. Existance
6. That
7. Is
8. Not
9. Nameable
10. In
11. Ten
12. Words


May I get my cookie?

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Blah blah blah unstoppable stuff and immovable object stuff.

The object would have to contain infinite mass in order for a given force to not move it at all. If an object existed with infinite mass, the entire universe would implode instantly due to its infinite gravity.

If you magically stabalize the universe, and then fling another object at it that cannot be stopped (which would again be something with infinite energy) the two would collide and obliterate each other. The resulting release of energy would slowly disintegrate the whole universe.

so..... black hole?

 

[grimsprice]

Blah blah blah unstoppable stuff and immovable object stuff.

The object would have to contain infinite mass in order for a given force to not move it at all. If an object existed with infinite mass, the entire universe would implode instantly due to its infinite gravity.

If you magically stabalize the universe, and then fling another object at it that cannot be stopped (which would again be something with infinite energy) the two would collide and obliterate each other. The resulting release of energy would slowly disintegrate the whole universe.

so..... black hole?

Nope. A black holes' gravity can be quantified. It can be measured and fought with a rocket from a safe distance. This black whole would be infinitely powerful from an infinite range. It would suck up the entire universe instantly, rather than slowly over time. Like normal black holes.

 

[LadyRhian]

The last man on earth sat in a room.

then there came a knock on the door.



----
shortest scary story ever.

And a woman walked in. It only says he was the last man on earth. Not the last human.

My next sentence will be a lie. I lied.

 

[Aurgelmir]

How long will it take you to cross a crosswalk if with each step, you cut the distance you walked with the prior step by half?

well if we knew how big the initial step was, how long the cross-walk is and how long each step takes, you can work that out

It doesn't matter. Granted you take normal steps, and didn't get over half way across in one step.

Lets say it takes me 10 normal steps to cross the road. So in my first step I cross 10% of the road.

Now I half my step and I have crossed 15% of the road.
Do another halving of my steps and I have crossed 19% of the road...

We can keep on going but the math will show that you need to take an infinite number of steps to cross.

In reality you end up with not being able to take smaller steps, and some would consider you having crossed the road if you are just a few micrometer away. But math wise you will never cross 100% of the road

 

[MintsMan]

The next sentence is true. The last sentence is false

 

[Liquid Ocelot]

If purple is the combination of Red and Blue... what is Red or Blue the combination of?

Red is the combination of Purple and anti-blue
Blue is the combination of Purple and anti-red

The grandfather paradox is an instant classic.

Also I forget the name but what's the smallest number not nameable in under 10 words?

I say it again what's

1. The
2. Smallest
3. Number
4. Not
5. Nameable
6. In
7. Under
8. Ten
9. Words?

1. 10,
2. The
3. Smallest
4. Number
5. Nameable
6. In
7. 10
8. Words
9. Or
10. Less

 

[Alien Mole]

'The smallest number not nameable in under ten words or less' doesn't exist because 'the smallest number not nameable in under ten words or less' names it and is less than ten words. Therefore it will always be possible to refer to it using less than ten words.

BAM!

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

We all know that a Blendtec Blender is great and superb and all....

But will it Blend?
That is the question.

Mind=Blown

 

[Wintermoot]

what will happen if Pinoccio said "my nose will now grow"

 

[Piflik]

Sorry, but purple is not a wavelength of light. In fact it is the only color that doesn't exist as a wavelength. Visible light goes from red (long) to blue (short); purple would be shorter than blue and at the same time longer than red...

Surely that'd be the other way round, unless purple is ultraviolet and infrared at the same time...

No...that's exactly what I am talking about...purple doesn't exist as a singe wavelength, since it would have to be infrared and ultraviolet at the same time. I only exists as the combination of two wavelengths (one red, one blue). If you'd map all colors to a circle, you would have purple between blue and red, but in real life the spectrum is linear, with red on one end and blue on the other. The combination of them is not on that.

 

[Death God]

I have a few:

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
If everything is one big circle of life, where do humans fit after they are dead and cremated?
"X" divided by 0 equals what?

 

[Addicted Muffin]

these arent paradoxes...most are just creative thoughts...

a paradox is a statment that contradicts itself...like

If pinocio said "My nose will grow", what will happen? if its the truth, his nose wont grow, but then its a lie, so it will...but wouldnt that make it true, thus you get into an endless cycle of it will and wont...

or a crocadile has a baby in it's mouth. The mother asks for it back, and the crocadile says, "I'll give it back if you can guess what i plan on doing with it." she says eat it, thats correct, but if the mother gets it back, her guess was wrong, and the crocadile cant give it back...

or the most famous... the two brothers, one lies, and one is truthful....

these are paradoxes

 

[k-ossuburb]

I kind of like Ricky Gervais' quote:

"If God exists, why did he make me an atheist?"

 

[Death God]

Best paradox? Here you go.

Oh, and on the subject of irresistable force VS an immovable object? The universe moves instead...

I must be missing something but I don't get the picture right now.

 

[keideki]

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?

Did you say orange flavored cola?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Orange

 

[Someonetookmyname]

a missionary is caught by some headhunters, they tell him "if you lie to us, we'll cut your head off. If you tell the truth, we'll burn you"

the missionary answered "you'll cut my head off"