World's best suggested paradox

[Naheal]

Paradox? Hmm... If Americans are rude, what does that make people in the deep south that practice southern hospitality?

(If you're foreign and don't understand the statement, imagine a pushy American.... attempting to make you feel comfortable in their home.)

 

[kim333]

There is also the heap of sand paradox.
One grain of sand doesn't make a heap, so by adding one grain to your pile you have two grains (which is also not a heap). Do this ad nausium, and you could have an infinite number of grains of sand and it will not be a heap.
Works the other way too. You have a heap of sand and take away one grain, it is still a heap. Continue along that process, you will eventually have no grains of sand but it could still be considered a heap.

I don't see how that's a paradox either, really.

All it proves is that the definition of heap is subjective and not definite.

 

[Wolfram23]

The paradox of motion named 'Achilles And The Tortoise"

In the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles allows the tortoise a head start of 100 metres. If we suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed (one very fast and one very slow), then after some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 metres, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point. During this time, the tortoise has run a much shorter distance, say, 10 metres. It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead. Thus, whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has farther to go. Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been, he can never overtake the tortoise

That's not a paradox. Just the phrasing makes it sound like it might be. Fortunately you don't need to arrive at an infinite number of points in order to overtake something.

Looking for ∆T (time), assuming Achillies is moving at 10m/s and the tortoise at 1m/s, then:
(1m/s * T) + 100m = 10m/s * T
(10m/s*T)-(1m/s*T)=100m
10mT/s-1mT/s=100m
9mT/s=100m
9T/s=100
9T=100s
T=11.11111111111111111111111...seconds to arrive at the same point. But to overtake it only takes +0.0000000000000000000000001 seconds (well less than that) from the point of "almost"

Achilles-10x
Turtle-X

Time1:Achilles-0 Turtle-100
Time2:Achilles-100 Turtle-110
Time3:Achilles-110 Turtle-111
Time4:Achilles-111 Turtle-111.1
Time5:Achilles-111.1 Turtle-111.11

Eventually the difference is .(infinite 0s)1

That equals 0

x=.(infinite 0s)1
10x=.(infinite 0s)1
100x=.(infinite 0s)1
x=10x=100x

x=0

In that case the times were so close together that eventually they were at 0 seconds apart.

If the infinity bothers you eventually the time between the points and the distances between the two becomes insignificant.

Or even better let's have constant times
Time1:Achilles - 0 Turtle-100
Time2:Achilles - 100 Turtle-110
Time3:Achilles - 200 Turtle-120 Hermes-3000

^Well I guess that's another way to look at it. (Ninjad hah)

 

[Maze1125]

Also I forget the name but what's the smallest number not nameable in under 10 words?

I say it again what's

1. The
2. Smallest
3. Number
4. Not
5. Nameable
6. In
7. Under
8. Ten
9. Words?

There is no such number.

 

[UnwishedGunz]

what happens if you glue some toast butter side up to the back of a cat, and then drop the cat?

epicness!!!

OT: what happens when you chop off you D**K for $12,000,000

 

[RobCoxxy]

That one I enjoy, and the ham sandwich.
Nothing it better than eternal happiness.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, by the transitive property, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
QED

Yes there is.
Bacon.

 

[aod43254]

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?

That is pretty much a known paradox presented by Zeno of Elea called "Achilles and the tortoise"

 

[kek13]

Aladdin says to the genie "I wish you wouldn't grant this wish"

*insert trollface here*

 

[emeraldrafael]

what happens when an unstoppable force hits an unmovable object?

What happens if Pinochkio says: my nose will grow now!

Probably has been done and this is what i was going to say, but here's the answer i always got:

No one has ever lived to document when Chuck Norris met Mr. T.

 

[Distorted Stu]

If i traveled back in time to have sex with myself, is it masterbation?

I couldnt help myself

 

[SpaceSpork]

what happens when an unstoppable force hits an unmovable object?

Christopher Nolan makes The Dark Knight.

 

[N1ceDreamz]

If purple is the combination of Red and Blue... what is Red or Blue the combination of?

Red and Blue aren't combinations of anything, they are two of the three primary colours which combine to give every other colour.

 

[Geekosaurus]

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.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

what happens if you glue some toast butter side up to the back of a cat, and then drop the cat?

James? IS THAT YOU!? Hi dude. Tis the guy from your science class. You can probably guess who.
If this isn't James, please pretend you never got this message.
Your computer will self destruct in 3 seconds.


OT: Don't know any that haven't been suggested. :/

 

[GahzlyGriffon]

The human race is started by a group of humans who went back in time in the first place

cause>effect>cause

 

[Raven_Operative]

what happens if you glue some toast butter side up to the back of a cat, and then drop the cat?

James? IS THAT YOU!? Hi dude. Tis the guy from your science class. You can probably guess who.
If this isn't James, please pretend you never got this message.
Your computer will self destruct in 3 seconds.


OT: Don't know any that haven't been suggested. :/

this isn't James.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

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.

Nope. If you still have two apples, then you've divided them by one, not zero. (You've split them between yourself and no one else = 1)

Dividing by zero is a bit like pouring water into buckets which are infinitely small in size. They are so small that they effectively don't exist. Therefore the water could fill an infinite number of those buckets; hence anything divided by zero = infinity.

 

[Rocking Thunder]

Catch-22 the book
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[Halceon]

what happens when an unstoppable force hits an unmovable object?

What happens if Pinochkio says: my nose will grow now!

Nothing, because lying isn't the same as being wrong.

 

[captaincabbage]

what happens if you glue some toast butter side up to the back of a cat, and then drop the cat?

wow. epic wormhole. XD

OT: I've got one, it's my favorite.

If your goal in life is to lose at everything and you succeed, do you win or lose?