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Physicists need to address Zeno's paradox before doing anything else

The arrow one. Don't tell me math solves it.
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/05/23
Why do you think math doesn't solve it? Usually people ar...
Sexy mad cow disease church building
  03/05/23
Math does "solve" it in the sense that, mathematic...
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/05/23
Why only the arrow one?
Sexy mad cow disease church building
  03/05/23
It's the one Aristotle discusses, and it gets held out as an...
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/06/23
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Sexy mad cow disease church building
  03/07/23
Vibrational motion creates time
black trip athletic conference cuck
  03/05/23
Hmm
Sexy mad cow disease church building
  03/05/23
Creation of time isn't the issue. The issue is how an arrow ...
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/06/23
Then how can you have deterministic events like an arrow pen...
maize impressive background story kitty
  08/12/24
just google "how does calculus work" on youtube
swashbuckling deranged center elastic band
  03/05/23
I understand the math, that's not the problem. We know intui...
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/06/23
Maybe write the top physicists a letter to this effect; they...
Galvanic umber ratface ceo
  03/06/23
Many of them know, believe me. But this guy thinks Aristotle...
maize impressive background story kitty
  03/06/23
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maize impressive background story kitty
  05/09/23
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maize impressive background story kitty
  08/12/24
He has a PhD and a web site! "James went on to study...
maize impressive background story kitty
  08/12/24
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maize impressive background story kitty
  03/06/23
Physicists unable to address philosophy 101 problems, but cl...
Orchid Fighting Regret Organic Girlfriend
  03/06/23
Planck solved 100 years ago but white people still cling to ...
maize impressive background story kitty
  08/12/24
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domesticated claret shrine
  03/06/23
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maize impressive background story kitty
  08/12/24
Good luck with that considering we live in a simulation and ...
Razzle Aquamarine Lettuce Church
  08/12/24
how are they supposed to solve in when they are literally fr...
Geriatric Burgundy Immigrant
  08/12/24
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https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/15/25
someone solved this a couple years ago
,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::
  11/15/25
PS Planck units seem to exist and they solve the paradox, ki...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/15/25
The arrow paradox is only problematic if you assume that tim...
Junko Enoshima
  11/15/25
It's less a 'paradox' about motion than the concept of infin...
UN peacekeeper
  11/16/25
Here's my solution: time is like those iPhone "live pho...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/16/25


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Date: March 5th, 2023 10:44 PM
Author: maize impressive background story kitty

The arrow one. Don't tell me math solves it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#46014710)



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Date: March 5th, 2023 10:46 PM
Author: Sexy mad cow disease church building

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#46014719)



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Date: March 5th, 2023 11:13 PM
Author: maize impressive background story kitty

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: Sexy mad cow disease church building

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: maize impressive background story kitty

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: Sexy mad cow disease church building



(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: black trip athletic conference cuck

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: Sexy mad cow disease church building

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: maize impressive background story kitty

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: maize impressive background story kitty

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: swashbuckling deranged center elastic band

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: maize impressive background story kitty

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: Galvanic umber ratface ceo

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: maize impressive background story kitty

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#46017090)



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Date: May 9th, 2023 7:50 PM
Author: maize impressive background story kitty



(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: maize impressive background story kitty



(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: maize impressive background story kitty

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#47958155)



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Date: March 6th, 2023 11:27 PM
Author: maize impressive background story kitty



(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: Orchid Fighting Regret Organic Girlfriend

Physicists unable to address philosophy 101 problems, but claim philosophy is bs

LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#46018895)



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Date: August 12th, 2024 6:25 PM
Author: maize impressive background story kitty

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: domesticated claret shrine



(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: maize impressive background story kitty



(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: Razzle Aquamarine Lettuce Church

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: Geriatric Burgundy Immigrant

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5301402&forum_id=2.#49434934)



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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)