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higgs20

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Geekosaurus said:
AlexWinter said:
Geekosaurus said:
You can't divide by zero. Yes you fucking can. I have two apples, I don't divide by anything so I still have two apples. The mathematicians just don't want to admit defeat.
Dude, you're wrong. Accept it.

Do you seriously think that you, a lit student, are smarter than the entire mathematics community, or are you just trolling?
I've never said that. It's because I'm a literature student that I don't understand.
logically what my good fellow here is saying is correct, 2 apples divided by nothing is 2 apples, but when has mathematics ever been logical?
 

Geekosaurus

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higgs20 said:
logically what my good fellow here is saying is correct, 2 apples divided by nothing is 2 apples, but when has mathematics ever been logical?
Wingman.
 

Jin Roh

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Mathematics is purely logical AND though practical in most applications, it's still just ideas.
 

FalloutJack

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PoisonUnagi said:
FalloutJack said:
Oh, and on the subject of irresistable force VS an immovable object? The universe moves instead...
OMFG THEY JUST PASS THROUGH EACH OTHER IT'S NOT HARD
Oh, now you're just being silly.

(Pay attention, man. I was making a joke.)
 

Squidden

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Since I got 15 messages about my paradox, let me clarify.

If each time you reduced the step by half, you would never get there. It's actually a concept of infinity, but I thought it counted as a paradox.
 

Goody

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Changing anything in the past if time travel were possible:

If you change something in the past, in the time you decided to go back and change it there will be no need for you to do so, so you won't, so it will be unchanged, so you will decide to go back and change it, meaning you won't feel the need to change it etc etc...
 

Tanner The Monotone

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TerribleAssassin said:
What happened if Chuck Norris met Rob Swire in a Guitar Hero match?

I'm not sure if that's a paradox so I'll go with:

Is there a odourless cologne?
Put water in a bottle with a sprayer on it and slap a label that says Cologne on it and
vwa-la!

One things for sure, I'd buy it.
 

Tanner The Monotone

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TerribleAssassin said:
Snake Plissken said:
TerribleAssassin said:
What happened if Chuck Norris met Rob Swire in a Guitar Hero match?
Duh, Rob Swire would win. It's his job to play a plastic guitar with buttons on it. OH SNAP!
Yeah, but Chuck Norris is epic at anything, so it would be a showdown to the death, until Gareth McGrillen hits Chuck with his Bass guitar...
And it explodes, causing shrapnel to hit McGrillen in da FACE, causing....
 

chetoos

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in regards to the god paradox, if we are talking about the christian god, the trinity of father, son, and holy spirit, then yes, he can create a boulder that he cannot lift, as god the father, who is still the trinity, creates it, and god the son, jesus, the human, who is also the trinity, cannot lift it, by fault of being human.
now, my own paradox, if you can call it that, its more of an infinity theme: in one inch, there are an infinite amount of points. we shall label this as one infinite. now, there are also an infinite amount of points in two inches, yet, because it is twice the length of one inch, it contains 2 infinite amount of points
 

Trippy Turtle

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2xDouble said:
Trippy Turtle said:
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Squidden said:
How long will it take you to cross a crosswalk if with each step, you cut the distance you walked with the prior step by half?
You'll never make it :D
Yes and No. (heh, paradox!) The answer is: the time it takes for someone run the crosswalk (or stop light, depending on external conditions) and run your ass over. heh. Chaos theory (i think it was chaos theory. it might have been something else...) states that as time approaches infinity, all possible outcomes, no matter how unlikely, can and will occur (fun stuff, theoretical physics).
doesn't this mean the event of nothing changing anything ever has to happen as well? which means your statement kills itself and i will be handing it to the paradoxians to protect our planet!
Yep. Nothing and everything change simultaneously while remaining exactly the same. (That's why it's called Chaos Theory.)
The fact that anything exists or doesn't exist is itself a paradox. Cool, huh?
(Actually that isn't why it's called Chaos Theory, but it adds a nice dramatic effect, no?)

It goes to show just how effin' long infinite time is, and how effin' big is infinite space.

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you cant end the thread it doesn't exist remember! and i never really learned much about physics yet so is space actually infinite? if so how the hell is it expanding?

OT: how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? not really a paradox but the changing something in the past makes things worse in the present different isnt really true. it COULD but more then likely wont.
 

C95J

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Squidden said:
How long will it take you to cross a crosswalk if with each step, you cut the distance you walked with the prior step by half?
well you would make it, it would just take a long amount of time.

Even with each step you are moving a tiny amount, so eventually you will have to cross thee full length because you keep moving forward.
 

C95J

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samuraiash1991 said:
One fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight, back to back they faced eachover, drew the swords and shot eachover.

best paradox story i know :D
That is awesome!
 

A Weary Exile

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randomrob said:
If you try to fail and you succeed, what have you done?
You succeed? For instance, if you say to yourself "I will purposely lose this round of TF2." and you lose your plan has succeeded, you didn't really fail because you didn't want to win.

EDIT: Or if you were to win that hypothetical round, you will have failed because succeeding was not your goal.
 

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In the Netwtonian Universe, there are an infinite number of stars, the Universe is infinitely big, and infinitely old. Ergo, everywhere you look in this infinite Universe, there are stars. So this should add up, and the night sky should be as bright as a star. But it is not. Why is the night sky dark?





1. Can a man drown in the fountain of eternal life?

2.Answer truthfully (yes or no) to the following question: Will the next word you say be 'no'?
 

havass

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The only one I can remember is:
If God is almighty, can he create a boulder so heavy that he himself cannot carry?
 

Ewyx

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if you travel back in time for one day, meet yourself, have sex with yourself, is it incest or masturbation. :|
 

oreopizza47

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Some of these remind me of something one of my insufferably smart buddies did in Math once. He tried to prove that i (the imaginary number equaling the square root of -1) is equal to 1. It went something like this.

i = 1
i^4 = 1^4
1 = 1

I know it doesn't actually work, but damned if he doesn't make me think it does. I think he used a similar method to prove that 1 = 0 or something stupid like that.