Re: "The Paradox of Zeno"

ooops. got a 'little' lost in part of that.

Try what may have been the original form of the paradox, moron. Then explain
how calculus resolves it:

Before you can travel (some fraction of the distance you) must first travel
(that fraction of that fraction of distance), but before you travel (that
fraction of that
fraction of that fraction of the distance) you must first travel (that
fraction of ...

Calculus that, cretin.

PS. It will be fun seeing SR-cretins defending the Tots' cretinism.

eleaticus
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"The Paradox of Zeno"

The author finds it incredible that this paradox has been taken
seriously by intelligent men for over two millennia and has not been
recognized as a form of trickery.

The 'author' is an idiot.

The Paradox of Zeno is 2000 years old and its apparent ability to
prove
that all motion is impossible was not resolved until the mathematical
techniques of Calculus became available, even though that technique is
not
required.

The calculus only enabled naive realists to convince themselves they could
resolve Zeno's continuous time and continuous space paradox. A
calculation
formula or a calculation could only 'resolve' that paradox by hand-waving
away the fact that PROCESS is involved, a program is involved: first
this,
and then this, etc. NOT "if we completed the process then ...".

One form of the paradox describes the flight of an arrow which has
been shot at a target. The arrow is shot at a constant velocity, V, to a
target at a distance, L, and the time of flight is divided into
intervals.
In the first interval, the arrow covers half of the distance to the
target
and, in each succeeding interval of time, it covers half of the
remaining
distance. Under the line of reasoning presented, the arrow never reaches
the
target because, after each successive interval of time, one half of the
distance to the target that existed at the beginning of the interval
remains.

Try what may have been the original form of the paradox, moron. Then
explain
how calculus resolves it:

Before you can travel some fraction of the distance you must first travel
that fraction of that distance, but before you travel that fraction of
that
distance you must first travel that fraction of that distance of the
fraction of the distance you must first travel the fraction of before ...

Calculus that, cretin.

The author finds it incredible that this paradox has been taken
seriously by intelligent men for over two millennia and has not been
recognized as a form of trickery.

This writer does not find it incredible that idots believe it is
resolvable
by math-lingo ignoring of premises.

The reality is that THE PASSAGE OF
TIME DOES NOT SLOW AS THE ARROW APPROACHES THE TARGET AND THE ARROW
REACHES
THE TARGET WHEN IT SHOULD.

Idiot. The set of Zeno's paradoxes addresses the question: does process
exist. Your 'reality', whether or not it really (lol) is reality, asserts
the null hypothesis as the proof the null hypothesis is not null.

eleaticus (get it?)
ee-lee-AT-i-cus




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