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# He states that in any one instant of time, for the arrow to be moving it must either move to where it is, or it must move to where it is not. It cannot move to where it is not, because this is a single instant, and it cannot move to where it is because it
I encountered this sentence because of your mentioning of zeno.

my brain is not happy with you.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 4:59, archived)
# Fortunately calculus is a handy bit of maths that
deals with all of Zeno's paradoxes very well.
But it doesn't stop them being awesome.
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# not according to "some philosophers"
metaphysical questions have not been answered.

this is the reason Small Gods is my favourite discworld novel; it lampoons all this stuff brilliantly. :)
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 5:05, archived)
# As time is infininitly(spelling?) divisible
surely any instant of time is therefore finite, and not an instant. So the arrow can move. Creating an imaginary zero length time, reduces this paradox to nothing more than a mental conundrum that can easily be solved with booze.
(Captain_lambkin adifferent.me, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 5:06, archived)
# I was reading something on New Scientist
time can only be divided so far.. other wise laws of physics stop applying and things start acting weird. or something.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 5:09, archived)
# I was reading something on New Scientist
time can only be divided so far.. other wise laws of physics stop applying and things start acting weird. or something.

edit: shortest messured period of time is 100 attoseconds.

"To imagine how long this is, if 100 attoseconds is stretched so that it lasts one second, one second would last 300 million years on the same scale." apparently

EDIT: this wasn't an edit... not sure how I managed this one.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 5:11, archived)
# The ultimate interval at the end is matched at the beginning.
If the arrow moves on "the path", at all, it's turtle kabab for lunch.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 5:09, archived)