Hey thanks for all the info. and i hope I am not coming across as rude, but i honestly have been told what I'm telling you by teachers, and find it troubling that you can't even at least see how one could think this is a paradox.
This is in fact zeno's paradox. It's called a paradox for a...
I don't know if you've read this whole thread, but I've mentioned that I'm an animator, not a physicist or a mathematician. I just have a passion for it and read a lot about it. Excuse me if I sound trivial, but i don't know of all the mathematical proofs and different variations on each...
Here's my argument:
If me and you are in a race. I run 10 m/s and you run 1 m/s. But you get a 10 meter head start. So after 1 second, I'm at the 10 meter mark (where you started), but in that 1 second, you ran 1 meter (now your at the 11 meter mark). So after 1/10 of a second, I run 1...
Well i think you answered your own question. It's "assumed" in calculus, yet we can't actually ever do it, even hypothetically, because of what i just argued.
I don't want to go in circles here, but i do enjoy the friendly debate.
Yes but this is my whole argument in the first place. The universe we live in let's time flow... 2 seconds will take 2 seconds. But if you use math, you could argue that in order to get to 2 seconds you have to first get to 1 second and in order to get to one second you have to get to 1/2...
Hey DaleSpam,
Yes i think you're right. The very reason the question about SR bothered me was because of the fact that it places an unreachable boundary on somehting real in the universe, which is essentially similar to infinity. It's a limit, as we've stated. But i think the answer is...
Well yes but just becaues you can put 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 ... = 2, doesn't mean that you can actually get to 2. You said yourself "you'll always get an answer less than 2, although you can get arbitrarily close to 2 by adding more terms." But we don't want to get close, we want to reach 2. So...
Hey JesseM,
I am not a mathematician and i trust that you are correct. That is interesting and i didn't know that was possible. I don't really see how though. All the times are the same as the distances (1/2 a second for 1/2 a meter, 1/3 of a second for 1/3 of a meter...etc.) If you say...
i apologize if you took offense to my comment about coping with infinity. As for your analogy, I am aware of Zeno's paradox and this is just a different take on one of them. To answer your question, no, you're not "sweeping them under the table." But you are not answering the question either...
I agree with your logic, but that's not what I'm questioning. Let's hypothetically say that you were able to reach C (even though I'm aware that in SR you cannot). Since now you are moving at C, you (now being a photon), would see another photon as motionless because your are now moving at the...
He didn't PROVE that motion is impossible and he never will (because it IS possible). He simply proved that the language in which we describe motion is flawed.
I am well aware that a photon does not experience the flow of time. But that is not the issue at hand. The only point I'm trying to make is that there must exist some speed at which light does not evade something at light speed. And that speed must be some extremely small fraction between...
I'm not saying that there's any mathematical inconsistencies in SR, but that doesn't make it perfect. Just because a theory is mathematically consistent and proven to high degrees of accuracy, doesn't mean it describes the full picture. Quite like Newtons laws weren't wrong at all, they just...