Tackling a paradox: Do we or don't we arrive at the destination?

Date Submitted: 11/13/2002 14:17:31
Category: / Science & Technology / Mathematics
Length: 4 pages (1219 words)
Suppose I'm to walk on a straight road from A to B: I wear a pedometer, (as well as my sneakers) and set off. The distance (AB) is 100 meter. I come to a place where my pedometer shows 50. "Half of the way", I think and keep going, roughly estimating the remained distance: I'm going to walk half of the remained 50, then half of the remained 25, then half of the remained 12.5, then half of the remained 6.25, …
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…properties (a straightforward example would be like this: The universe is getting larger and larger, the galaxies are getting far from one another, but gases get solidified, their atoms getting closer, to create stars). It is something beyond them. That's the merit of our three-dimensional world: If I had to really live within some mathematical system of points and lines, I would never ever arrive at work on time! written by Tina Rahimi from Iran
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