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Post: 55882485_61 created on Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:29 pmPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:29 pm
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Lucky~9~Lives It does, actually. This is because of frames-of-reference - in a frame-of-reference where the immovable force has a velocity of zero after the change of direction, it will have a non-zero velocity before the change of direction, hence it will have been stopped (it's velocity will have gone to zero). Ah, okay. I just realized that shortly after posting. Of course, I think it would simply be easier to understand if the term "irresistible" force is used rather than unstoppable since that, I believe, is the easier of the two different names for the paradox. Wikipedia An example of this paradox in non-western thought can be found in the origin of the Chinese word for paradox (Chinese: 矛盾; pinyin: máodùn; literally "Spear-Shield" ). This term originates from a story (see the Kanbun example) in the 3rd century BC philosophical book Han Feizi.[1] In the story, a man was trying to sell a spear and a shield. When asked how good his spear was, he said that his spear could pierce any shield. Then, when asked how good his shield was, he said that it could defend from all spear attacks. Then one person asked him what would happen if he were to take his spear to strike his shield; the seller could not answer. This led to the idiom of "zìxīang máodùn" (自相矛盾), or "self-contradictory." Ooh, Chinese wisdom in the same vain. Fun fun. Perhaps the shield and the spear would both break. =X Of course, that would mean that the spear won, I guess and in the other way (both remaining intact), the shield would win. |
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