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Re: [Phys-l] (no subject)




From: Connie Tyree <CTyree@senecaeast.net>
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 6:26:23 AM
A student posed the following question: What would happen if a
theoretically unstoppable object collides with a theoretically unmovable
object?


An unstoppable object is impossible by definition in a universe with an
unmovable object and vice versa.

That is, the definitions of the two objects are mutually exclusive.

Lots of weird paradoxes can be created once you allow axioms that contradict
each other.

Marc "Zeke" Kossover