Zeno's Paradox by me!
So Once Zeno challanged Aristotle with a question: If a man is racing with a tortoise having tortoise starting from half of the track,but the man is starting from the begining.Every time the man reaches the place of the tortoise he finds the tortoise to reach more half of the remaining track. Now Im asking the same question to you. Will the tortoise reach the finish line ever?
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1 solution
I don't think the paradox as presented in its usual way. As presented, the tortoise will reach the track irrespective of the man's existence. The usual form of the paradox is that the tortoise has a head start, and every time the man reaches to where the tortoise was, he finds that the tortoise has moved on; therefore the man will never catch up to the tortoise. The answer is that, in reality, we have not let the race go long enough, and the man will not only catch the tortoise, but will surpass him. Ed Gray