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Physicists need to address Zeno's paradox before doing anything else
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Date: March 5th, 2023 10:44 PM Author: Contagious Spot The arrow one. Don't tell me math solves it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014710) |
Date: March 5th, 2023 10:46 PM Author: Concupiscible apoplectic rehab milk Why do you think math doesn't solve it?
Usually people are like duh convergent infinite series *hand wave*
I've never found that convincing |
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Date: March 5th, 2023 11:13 PM Author: Contagious Spot Math does "solve" it in the sense that, mathematically, you can deduce that an infinite series of points in time gets you to a finite result. But that could reflect a failure of mathematics. It's not proof of anything since mathematics is all symbolic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014794) |
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Date: March 5th, 2023 11:14 PM Author: Concupiscible apoplectic rehab milk Why only the arrow one? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014798) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 3:35 PM Author: Contagious Spot It's the one Aristotle discusses, and it gets held out as an example of his thinking all the time. 2,400 years later Caltech can barely explain this shit better than Aristotle. Many physicists still think Aristotle was right. If time is like like a series of cells in a movie film roll, how can an arrow move between cells? How can you have motion without a mover? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46017034) |
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Date: March 7th, 2023 12:25 PM Author: Concupiscible apoplectic rehab milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46020356) |
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Date: March 5th, 2023 10:51 PM Author: grizzly fluffy goal in life toaster Vibrational motion creates time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014731) |
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Date: March 5th, 2023 10:55 PM Author: Concupiscible apoplectic rehab milk Hmm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014749) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 3:41 PM Author: Contagious Spot Creation of time isn't the issue. The issue is how an arrow can have velocity if time consists of discrete moments, and if at any given moment the arrow is at rest in one place. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46017069) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 6:36 PM Author: Contagious Spot Then how can you have deterministic events like an arrow penetrating a target? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47958167) |
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Date: March 5th, 2023 11:15 PM Author: Startling Hairless Gaming Laptop just google "how does calculus work" on youtube (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46014801) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 3:35 PM Author: Contagious Spot I understand the math, that's not the problem. We know intuitively that arrows penetrate their targets before we even learn the math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46017038) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 3:42 PM Author: Charismatic site Maybe write the top physicists a letter to this effect; they probably will welcome input from someone not from what is traditionally called "the field," as they never get this type of idea from outsiders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46017076) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 3:46 PM Author: Contagious Spot Many of them know, believe me. But this guy thinks Aristotle was right and shows the math. Even though the math checks out he says it makes him very uneasy. It should, because he's wrong.
https://youtu.be/u7Z9UnWOJNY?t=653 |
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Date: May 9th, 2023 7:50 PM Author: Contagious Spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46291692) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 5:01 PM Author: Contagious Spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47957867) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 6:33 PM Author: Contagious Spot He has a PhD and a web site!
"James went on to study mathematics at Lancaster university. He was attracted by the challenge of the analytical and creative thought required in a maths degree, but it was probably the lack of essays and reading list he found most attractive. Later, James went to York university with the aim of getting a PhD and avoiding the real world for at least another three years. He was successful on both counts.
After working in research in combinatorics and group theory, James joined the Millennium Mathematics Project from the University of Cambridge. On their behalf James ran The Enigma Project, with the aim to bring mathematics to life through the fascinating history and mathematics of codes and code breaking. Spies! Secrets! And secret messages!"
https://www.singingbanana.com/about-2/
Can someone please email this thread to this poor dood? |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 11:27 PM Author: Contagious Spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46018869) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 11:34 PM Author: Brass university Physicists unable to address philosophy 101 problems, but claim philosophy is bs
LJL |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 6:25 PM Author: Contagious Spot Planck solved 100 years ago but white people still cling to aristotelian lies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47958119) |
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Date: March 6th, 2023 11:46 PM Author: marvelous unhinged coldplay fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#46018934) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 4:48 PM Author: Contagious Spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47957806) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 4:51 PM Author: stimulating very tactful garrison sound barrier Good luck with that considering we live in a simulation and cannot access the source code. Boom is right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47957818) |
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Date: August 12th, 2024 4:53 PM Author: Citrine vigorous chapel philosopher-king how are they supposed to solve in when they are literally frozen in place? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#47957825) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#49434658) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: ,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:: someone solved this a couple years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#49434661) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:26 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK PS Planck units seem to exist and they solve the paradox, kind of. We measured black body radiation and found a Planck unit of difference between theoretical black bodies and real ones (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#49434666) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:28 PM Author: Junko Enoshima The arrow paradox is only problematic if you assume that time is equal to the sum of an infinite number of indivisible points, which is what Zeno was attempting to refute. We know from Cantor diagonalization that a continuous collection of points can't be ordered, therefore Zeno's hypothesis is false. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#49434673) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:18 AM Author: UN peacekeeper It's less a 'paradox' about motion than the concept of infinity generally. Consider: every rod has infinite length because it can be regarded as the infinite sum of increasingly small pieces! In either case, the conclusion proven by contradiction is that infinity doesn't exist or, at least, is useless as an explanatory concept for everyday reasoning. Oh, and notice that the 'solution' to the 'paradox' requires nothing like 'calculus' or anything fancy. In other news and words, the 'great thinkers' of the past were actual retards by today's standards and are of limited and overrated utility. |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:20 AM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Here's my solution: time is like those iPhone "live photos" where there a little bit of motion in the photo. It's fallacious to assume there's no motion occurring within discreet units of time because we have no evidence of it and it creates a "paradox" to think of it that way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2!#49434939) |