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 Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:37 am
Basically what the subject says. State any Paradoxes that you know of...
I'll Start! It's kinda long though:
Think of a lamp with a button to turn the lamp on/off. You can switch on the lamp by pressing the button once, and can switch off the lamp by pressing the button a second time.
Now you switch on the lamp and wait for 60 seconds. Then you switch off the lamp and wait for 30 seconds. Another switch-on for 15 seconds, and so on, ad infinitum. Every switch requires half of the time of the switch before.
Let's say the lamp cannot be destroyed by this handling, and it would be also possible to do an infinite number of switch operations -
after 120 seconds, will the lamp (the “infinity machine”) be on or off?
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:40 am
on? i dont know, just guessing.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:54 am
Music Lover_12345 on? i dont know, just guessing. ur not supposed to answer it O_O there is no answer...cause if you cut the time in half every time the time would be almost nothing...so its impossible to find an answer
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:56 am
wipeout4wh Music Lover_12345 on? i dont know, just guessing. ur not supposed to answer it O_O there is no answer...cause if you cut the time in half every time the time would be almost nothing...so its impossible to find an answer Man, your smart... Okay here's another one(please someone else do a paradox, my brain hurts): Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:01 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:02 am
-_-Xerxez Tha Ferret-_- wipeout4wh Music Lover_12345 on? i dont know, just guessing. ur not supposed to answer it O_O there is no answer...cause if you cut the time in half every time the time would be almost nothing...so its impossible to find an answer Man, your smart... Okay here's another one(please someone else do a paradox, my brain hurts): Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1? or he's just heard it before? xp
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:03 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:10 am
i cant think of any paradoxes
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:29 pm
-_-Xerxez Tha Ferret-_- wipeout4wh Music Lover_12345 on? i dont know, just guessing. ur not supposed to answer it O_O there is no answer...cause if you cut the time in half every time the time would be almost nothing...so its impossible to find an answer Man, your smart... Okay here's another one(please someone else do a paradox, my brain hurts): Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1? yeah, ive seen summit like that b4. these arent paradoxes, these are really complex riddles. a paradox is like, you goin back in time an killin your mum whos pregnant (your the baby) which would cause the collaps of the universe. yknow, back to the future, doctor who, but i still like riddles. i cant think of any. damn.
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