Please click interesting if you think this is. Once upon a time in Greece, there was a man named Nero who enjoyed challenging the big mucky-muck, I think I'm so good, mathematicians of the time. So he came up to all of them and
asked them this; "how is motion even possible", to which the mathematicians replied, "well, if you can move from point A to point B, that's motion then isn't it?"
"I know", Nero countered, "but in order to move from point A to point B, or rather, from point 1 to point 2, one mustget halfway there first, right?"
The mathematicians were all ears.
"But in order to get halfway there, you will need to get a quarter of the way..."
Silence.
"And in order to get a quarter of the way to point a, you will need to get one eighth of the way, right?....." Zeno smiles. "But in order to do that, you need to get to half of one eighth, then half of one sixteenth, and halfway from that, and so on, and so forth..."
"So tell me, dear scholars, how then is motion possible?
2007-10-19
16:26:07
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