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To: KrisKrinkle

While we’re talking paradoxes...how about Zeno’s paradox? If numbers are infinite, then movement of any kind through any dimension is impossible. Why? Simply because any movement from point A to point B requires me to move through an infinite number of fractional increments. But if the denominator of a fraction is infinite in size, how can anything move?


68 posted on 01/29/2014 12:41:52 PM PST by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: Drawsing

“Simply because any movement from point A to point B requires me to move through an infinite number of fractional increments. But if the denominator of a fraction is infinite in size, how can anything move?”

Just off the top of my head, would that not depend on where
points A and B are and whether or not we move by fractional increments?

If Point A is 1 and Point B is 2 and I move in fractional increments of 1/3 it takes me three moves to get from A to B.

If the beautiful woman I want moves in fractional increments of 1/2, she moves from Point A to Point B in two moves, and disappears from my existence for a while since she’s moving at a different fractional increment. (By the way, that would explain some things in my life.)

Where did we go relative to each other during the move? Different dimensions? Different timelines with intersection points?


80 posted on 01/29/2014 1:02:41 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Drawsing

By moving by defined wholes! You move the first half of the race course...then you move to the end of the second half of the race course...there!... You are done and you have moved the whole course and there-fore there is true movement in the universe. (solution, it was said came from Socrates as quoted by Plato).


81 posted on 01/29/2014 1:06:47 PM PST by mdmathis6 (American Christians can help America best by remembering that we are Heaven's citizens first!)
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