Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Zeno's Paradox


Day 160: Greek philosopher Zeno proposed a number of paradoxical problems, one of which might be termed, "You can't get there from here." Let us suppose that a walker starts at Point A and progresses x number of feet. He then turns left and continues for one-half that distance, at which point he turns left again. He continues on, halving the distance travelled at every turn until he finally...

...fails miserably at reaching his destination, because he still has half the distance left to travel from the last point at which he stopped.

Despite the fact that Aristotle stepped in a few years later and refuted this assertation by introducing time into the equation, his solution was still not perfect. Today, the hypothesis remains a subject for debate, and perhaps will not be fully resolved until Mankind develops the mental capacity for embracing dimensions beyond the normally accepted four.

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