maybe Werner Heisenberg's notion--the
Uncertaunty Priniciple-- that everything is subject to the terms of our observation.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster  Don't you need a paradox for a pair of boats? |
That question itself paradoxical and worthy of
Zeno of Cypriot Citium--well, some Zeno...-- whose halving distances again and again in perpetuity prevents you from ever getting to wherever you are going because there is yet again the remaining half of the distance to half again....err..
ad infinitum . WHY it should be worthy is itself a conundrum, but there you are. [Big grin smiley]
Now
Zeno's Paradox was supposedly solved by Leibniz and Newton when they simultaneously discovered the Calculus of Infinitesimals where everything asymptotes at Infinity, even the alarm clock Daryl Strawberry once threw at the wall in Spring Training to make baseball alarm clocks famous.
However, there you go, Mandelbrot discovered that things that seem Finite--like coastline of Gt. Britain are in fact increasing immeasurable as you focus down the degree of perception, so that it never ends, which gives renewed hope that even i the coastline of great Britain could not be measured as it becomes increasing long as the degree of convolution becomes increasing minute, that Darryl’s alarm clock will never reach its intended wall—no matter how many infinitesimals Leibniz and Sir Isaac could try to fathom up.
If this seems mysterious, well like a good mystery, it will be revealed slowly in time.
Now for a Conundrum wrapped within a Paradox with possibly a dead cat mixed in, may I suggest the following post on another site wherein I invent a Cycle with not only four wheels (it’s been done) but four pedals (it hasn’t), only to have a volunteer bust it up inside a big box—all in the name of Quantum Paradoxology. [I can’t tell you how many smileys here!].
http://www.techimo.com/forum/imo-community/107690-sunday-morning-ny-good-morning-everybody-382.html#post3247194
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I am thinking of a topic that will suit well on this thread. 
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