Paradoxes

[pureprayer]

You can only walk into a forest half way, so when you get half way, are you stuck?

 

 

 

i dont get how that is a paradox, im familiair with the children's riddle but I dont see what would stop you from moving.

 

You can only walk 10 miles. You walk 10 miles from your house. Are you stuck?

[Distracted]

You can only walk into a forest half way, so when you get half way, are you stuck?

 

 

 

i dont get how that is a paradox, im familiair with the children's riddle but I dont see what would stop you from moving.

 

You can only walk 10 miles. You walk 10 miles from your house. Are you stuck?

 

 

 

Depends on why you can only walk 10 miles. Now since you're walking, I assume you can't just run out of fuel. So maybe the exhaustion (sp) would stop you, but then you'd just have to rest 'till you can resume your walk, or get back home.

 

 

 

OR! you just don't walk at all, and just hitchhike, take a bus or whatever, that way you're not walking and not stuck either.

 

 

 

But ofcourse there's no logical reason as to why you'll just be stuck and unable to move, unless there's some glitch irl

[darkpoet837]

My favorite paradox is a programming one .

 

 

 

A guy asks someone else in his class about true and false statements:

 

 

 

Guy one: "true == 1, and false == -1, am I correct?"

 

 

 

Guy two: "1."

 

 

 

See if you can find the paradox :lol:

[pureprayer]

My favorite paradox is a programming one .

 

 

 

A guy asks someone else in his class about true and false statements:

 

 

 

Guy one: "true == 1, and false == -1, am I correct?"

 

 

 

Guy two: "1."

 

 

 

See if you can find the paradox :lol:

 

Guy two said "1" which means true.

[purfishx]

My favorite paradox is a programming one .

 

 

 

A guy asks someone else in his class about true and false statements:

 

 

 

Guy one: "true == 1, and false == -1, am I correct?"

 

 

 

Guy two: "1."

 

 

 

See if you can find the paradox :lol:

 

Guy two said "1" which means true.

 

 

 

I still don't get it.

[pureprayer]

My favorite paradox is a programming one .

 

 

 

A guy asks someone else in his class about true and false statements:

 

 

 

Guy one: "true == 1, and false == -1, am I correct?"

 

 

 

Guy two: "1."

 

 

 

See if you can find the paradox :lol:

 

Guy two said "1" which means true.

 

 

 

I still don't get it.

 

True = 1

 

 

 

The guy said = 1

[SupportMage]

Doesn't that go,

 

X: In programming, 0 means true and 1 means false, right?

 

Y: 1, X.

 

x: Bastard.

[Lenin64]

So it's like RVB, when Church thinks the alien "Blargh" means yes, and he says "Hey, does Blargh mean yes?" and the alien says "Blargh"?

[Erk02]

You can only walk into a forest half way, so when you get half way, are you stuck?

 

 

 

i dont get how that is a paradox, im familiair with the children's riddle but I dont see what would stop you from moving.

 

You can only walk 10 miles. You walk 10 miles from your house. Are you stuck?

 

I'd run home. Boo-[bleep]in-yeah. Serious answer: This makes my head hurt. I'm leaning towards yes.

[Barihawk]

You can only walk into a forest half way, so when you get half way, are you stuck?

 

 

 

i dont get how that is a paradox, im familiair with the children's riddle but I dont see what would stop you from moving.

 

You can only walk 10 miles. You walk 10 miles from your house. Are you stuck?

 

I'd run home. Boo-[bleep]-yeah. Serious answer: This makes my head hurt. I'm leaning towards yes.

 

 

 

That's one possible answer to the question. Another might be "I walked 5 miles out and 5 miles back. As I started from my home I walked from my house."

 

 

 

 

So it's like RVB, when Church thinks the alien "Blargh" means yes, and he says "Hey, does Blargh mean yes?" and the alien says "Blargh"?

 

 

 

I love you, I'd almost forgotten RVB. Those guys went to UT Austin so they are fairly bright fellows.

[josh181830]

Doesn't that go,

 

X: In programming, 0 means true and 1 means false, right?

 

Y: 1, X.

 

x: Bastard.

 

 

 

1 means true, 0 means false. :

[Guest]

Here's a pretty cool riddle:

 

 

 

A man lead an officer through his house, to a plant. He pulled the plant away from the window, opened the blinds and took the safe that rest on the windowscil. With nervous fingers, he opened it. In it, a will sat, and the man read it aloud. "I grant all of my estate to my grandson, William Neuman, should nobody enter my house three days after my death. His uncle died four days ago. The officer read the will and said "I cannot grant you the estate". Why not?

 

 

 

Because the estate is entitled to his grandson - not his nephew.

 

 

 

Edit: Legos beat me to it. :cry:

 

 

 

You got it. Alternative answer: The plant leafs would not be moving towards te window unless the blinds were open, which they were not. The nephew/grandson must have closed them prior to the meeting.

 

 

 

Heres a funny paradox:

 

 

 

When you eat a doughnought, do you eat the hole/where does the hole go?

[db300]

a=b

 

a^2=ab

 

2a^2=a^2+ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2+ab-2ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2-ab

 

2(a^2-ab)=1(a^2-ab)

 

2=1

 

 

 

Let's go through this step by step.

 

 

 

a=b Start

 

a^2=ab (times whole equation by a)

 

2a^2=a^2+ab (what the hell did you do here? You timesd the left side of the equation by a^2 and you added a^2 to the right hand side. You fail. It should be 2a^2=ba^3)

 

 

 

He added, not multiplied.

 

Since a=b, you can look at the second to last step and replace the (a^2-ab) with (a^2-a^2). That equals 0, so you're basically taking 2(0) = 1(0), which is true.

[Guest]

a=b

 

a^2=ab

 

2a^2=a^2+ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2+ab-2ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2-ab

 

2(a^2-ab)=1(a^2-ab)

 

2=1

 

 

 

Let's go through this step by step.

 

 

 

a=b Start

 

a^2=ab (times whole equation by a)

 

2a^2=a^2+ab (what the hell did you do here? You timesd the left side of the equation by a^2 and you added a^2 to the right hand side. You fail. It should be 2a^2=ba^3)

 

 

 

He added, not multiplied.

 

Since a=b, you can look at the second to last step and replace the (a^2-ab) with (a^2-a^2). That equals 0, so you're basically taking 2(0) = 1(0), which is true.

 

 

 

my brain hurts....

[AceSpitball]

What are your favorite paradoxes? Paradoxes always fascinated me when I was younger and it still does now, because I love how it makes you think. Here's an old favorite of mine, called the grandfather paradox.

 

 

 

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

 

 

 

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

 

 

 

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

 

 

 

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson?

[Zierro]

I thought the grandfather paradox was the one where it's impossible to kill your grandfather before he gave birth to your parent?

 

 

 

My favorite would have to be nonconformity/conformity. Is a person really a nonconformist for not conforming even though they are conforming to nonconformity?

[AceSpitball]

I thought the grandfather paradox was the one where it's impossible to kill your grandfather before he gave birth to your parent?

 

 

 

My favorite would have to be nonconformity/conformity. Is a person really a nonconformist for not conforming even though they are conforming to nonconformity?

 

 

 

true, to be nonconformist you have to be conformist.. argh my mind just got blown

[Pinkbullet3]

I thought the grandfather paradox was the one where it's impossible to kill your grandfather before he gave birth to your parent?

 

 

 

My favorite would have to be nonconformity/conformity. Is a person really a nonconformist for not conforming even though they are conforming to nonconformity?

 

What the OP mentioned is something similar to the GF paradox, but it isn't exactly it. I know what you're talking about, and it is one of my favorite:

 

The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel, first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller).[1] The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler's grandmother. As a result, one of the traveler's parents (and by extension, the traveller himself) would never have been conceived. This would imply that he could not have travelled back in time after all, which in turn implies the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveller would have been conceived, allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather.

[aspokaspofkjsopfkapo]

Rrrraaaggghhh

 

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[l0rd]

I like the paradox brought about by the definition of omnipotence.

 

 

 

If someone was omnipotent, wouldn't they have the ability to spawn a sandwich too large for them to eat? But at the same time, their omnipotence allows them to eat any thing of any size. So it comes down to whether they cannot eat or make this sandwich; either way, I find this word interesting as it contradicts its very definition.

[Shazarabbit]

Merged with the old thread, remember the search feature is your friend. Happy posting everyone.

[MisterGreen]

I like the paradox brought about by the definition of omnipotence.

 

 

 

If someone was omnipotent, wouldn't they have the ability to spawn a sandwich too large for them to eat? But at the same time, their omnipotence allows them to eat any thing of any size. So it comes down to whether they cannot eat or make this sandwich; either way, I find this word interesting as it contradicts its very definition.

 

 

 

They cannot make a sandwich too large for them to eat, because it would have to greater than their own omnipotence. But then people would say they were not omnipotent because they cannot make something greater than infinity, but that's not the case at all. The most you could make is an infinite sandwich. They could then eat it because they are infinite as well. There is nothing greater than infinity. This paradox is only possible because people assume that there is something greater than something that never ends, but there isn't.

[Zierro]

Merged with the old thread, remember the search feature is your friend. Happy posting everyone.

 

 

 

Wow, I never saw that happen before. I give you props for your competence. :mrgreen: :thumbup:

 

 

 

If someone was omnipotent, wouldn't they have the ability to spawn a sandwich too large for them to eat? But at the same time, their omnipotence allows them to eat any thing of any size. So it comes down to whether they cannot eat or make this sandwich; either way, I find this word interesting as it contradicts its very definition.

 

 

 

Plus, if it's possible for them to do anything would that mean it's possible for them to not be omnipotent?

[runescapeloser22]

About that killing your Grandparent thing, that only works if you believe the Past, Future, and Present exist all at once.

[Wizz]

My favorite paradox has to be the Ship of Theseus paradox. The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz is a prime example of this.