To: B-Chan
That's why NASA should spend some money on this, hire a physicist, and mabe a philosopher, too. Maybe there is no such thing as epitachysis and we can skip all the fire and smoke belching machinery at Cape Canaveral and just go directly to the proper velocity depending on mission requirements
19 posted on
08/13/2003 12:33:34 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
I'll have to check this out, since it is right up my alley! Actually, I thought a long time ago that the resolution of Zeno's paradox had to do with the "Planck distance" (10 to the minus 43rd power of a meter), a unit for which smaller units of length have no meaning in a quantum-level kind of way. But this guy seems to be saying something different.
To: RightWhale
IMO, he's correct in his analysis of Zeno's paradoxes.
I cannot speculate as to why folks are concerned this changes physics - it merely demonstrates that some mathematico-physical concepts may be artifacts of the math.
The universe seems unaltered to me!
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