GENIUS FORUMS

But a distance is a measurement using a scale. This is never "absolute" as a scale is relative and limited to a certain range. This is why I think the paradox can arise, since in the story of the paradox scale is implemented without known limitations. Perhaps this is what you mean, that t...

Although very practical, its shortcomings and those of any other psychical model are precisely the reason the paradox could appear in the first place. One could even muse the possibility it's the paradox of language and knowledge systems. Well, this is what I said earlier: a gap between the Physica...

But you are still using abstract units for measurements in both cases. How do you think atoms are defined? Or quantum particles? Or how the meter is established by some wavelength... It's always a representation, there is no "legitimate" distance as such. It seems as if you are saying tha...

The problem with the paradox is that any "two points" are pure mathematical entities or perhaps even metaphysical but certainly not "physically" there somewhere, unless in a very roundabout generalized manner. Because of the limits of the mathematically "convenient" mo...

Well Van Rhijn, there's two things I would like to point out about what I said concerning the Infinite and the Metaphysical: Firstly, I subscribe to an Anaximander-esque view of Infinity, that similar to Apeiron. If you're not up to date on your Greek, it means "limitless, unbound", and wi...

Ah, Zeno's Paradox of the Arrow. A classic, surely. However, the entire matter of discussion is moot considering exactly what is being done here Mathematically; the arrow and it's path to the target are being divided by an Infinite amount of 'half-way' points. What must be realized in this is that t...