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That just raises a new paradox: how can you jump across those discrete distances without passing through the space between?
by hgsgm 4y ago
That just raises a new paradox: how can you jump across those discrete distances without passing through the space between?
- AngriestLettuce 4y agoWith my feet, usually.
- kej 4y agoSolvitur ambulando, as St. Augustine and/or Lewis Carroll would say.
- danbruc 4y agoIf space is discrete, then there is no space in between. If you shift a bit to the right or left, it does not pass through some in between space, it disappears in one position and appears in one next to it.
- tshaddox 4y agoSimilar to Richard Feynman’s famous answer to the question “why do I feel the force of a magnet from several inches away?” What counts as a satisfying answer depends on the person, but the general answer is “that’s how the physical world works.” This one doesn’t particularly feel like a “paradox.”