World's best suggested paradox
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That's why 0.99 repeating equals one or else things like Physics would be fuck-all.Squidden said:
I still don't get it...diebane said:
OT:Lombard's Paradox: When rising to stand from a sitting or squatting position, both the hamstrings and quadriceps contract at the same time, despite their being antagonists to each other.
Depends on the length of the crosswalk and the distance traveled during the first step, and the time between steps. I think you told the question wrong. If you want the answer to be infinitive then you told the question wrong.Squidden said:
Duh, Rob Swire would win. It's his job to play a plastic guitar with buttons on it. OH SNAP!TerribleAssassin said:
"He sees!" said the mute man of the blind man to the deaf man who heard him.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
Although technically neither of these including the whole "Everything I say is a lie." aren't paradoxs. They're just incorrect. A mute man wouldn't be able to speak. So either he's speaking, and thus not mute, or he isn't. If he's speaking then he's still speaking, if he isn't then he isn't. The "Everything I say is a lie" statement can easily be called a lie without a paradox, all just because you are lying now doesn't mean that you always lie.
And while they are not paradoxes, its still fun as hell to think about they're impossibility.
A true paradox would be if you went back in time and killed yourself, thus causing you to cease existing in the future (this theoritical event subscribes to the idea that you can change the past without creating new timeline). Since you no longer exist in the future, you can't kill yourself in the past which means that you now exist in the future to kill yourself in the past causing yourself to not exist in the future thus rendering... See what I'm getting at when I say paradox?
Only if you're stuck in the mindset that something can only be burned by something hotter than itself.zfactor said:
Well if no one is around, but some recording equipment set up to record any sound, happens to be nearby. Would the tree make a sound?Piflik said:Actually oscillation of air-pressure is just that, until it is interpreted by an observer...his brain will turn the pressure oscillations into sound...the oscillations will be generated without an observer, too, but it will not be soundblalien said:
There is an actual answer to that riddle.
Go to one of the men and ask:
"What would the other man say if I asked him which door leads to salvation?"
This way, it does not matter which one of them you ask. The answer will alway go through a lie.
Asking Truth-guy > getting the actual false answer from the other guy.
Asking Lying-guy > getting a lie about what the truth-guy would've said.
Therefore, it will not be the door either of them will say it is, but the other door.
Go to one of the men and ask:
"What would the other man say if I asked him which door leads to salvation?"
This way, it does not matter which one of them you ask. The answer will alway go through a lie.
Asking Truth-guy > getting the actual false answer from the other guy.
Asking Lying-guy > getting a lie about what the truth-guy would've said.
Therefore, it will not be the door either of them will say it is, but the other door.
Sorry, the scientific definition of sound is the oscillation itself. Pretty much any professional scientist in the field will agree with that.Piflik said:Actually oscillation of air-pressure is just that, until it is interpreted by an observer...his brain will turn the pressure oscillations into sound...the oscillations will be generated without an observer, too, but it will not be soundblalien said:
Ooh, I have one. Fans of Eight-Bit Theater might be able to help out.
So there's this Thief dude, right? When everyone around him levels up, he does, too - with the explanation that he stole it from the future. Fast forward a while and the Big Bad (Sarda) makes everyone de-level, at which point past-Thief rocks up and steals back the LVL.UP from present Thief.
But, in order for him to steal it from himself, he would need to have taken it in the first place, which means he -couldn't- steal from himself as he never had it, but Sarda didn't de-level him, so he -did- have it, but he'd need to have taken it from somewhere to begin with because he didn't start out with it, but he can go into the future to take it when he never had it-OW, F**K, MY BRAIN.
Here are the two links, so you can see for yourself. Kinda.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/01/21/episode-651-thief-of-time/
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/
So there's this Thief dude, right? When everyone around him levels up, he does, too - with the explanation that he stole it from the future. Fast forward a while and the Big Bad (Sarda) makes everyone de-level, at which point past-Thief rocks up and steals back the LVL.UP from present Thief.
But, in order for him to steal it from himself, he would need to have taken it in the first place, which means he -couldn't- steal from himself as he never had it, but Sarda didn't de-level him, so he -did- have it, but he'd need to have taken it from somewhere to begin with because he didn't start out with it, but he can go into the future to take it when he never had it-OW, F**K, MY BRAIN.
Here are the two links, so you can see for yourself. Kinda.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/01/21/episode-651-thief-of-time/
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/