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Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but isn't your proposed problem akin to Zeno's paradox of infinite distance, where we never reach anywhere because first we ne
by personjerry 10y ago
Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but isn't your proposed problem akin to Zeno's paradox of infinite distance, where we never reach anywhere because first we need to go 1/2 the distance, then 1/2 of that, etc.?
Which, of course, is resolved in math by limits, and in the real world by discrete units (i.e. atoms).
- vacri 10y agoZeno's paradox also conveniently ignores that the time chunks are getting smaller alongside the distance chunks. An item going at 1m/s will cover half a meter in half a second, and still have half a meter to go. Then after another quarter of a meter, it still has a quarter of a meter to go... but now only a quarter of a second has passed. If you keep on making the time units smaller, then of course it will 'never arrive'. It's not much of a paradox if you take a time-based characteristic and then don't give it enough time to occur :)