I don't know how to elaborate on this question any more, and I don't

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I don't know how to elaborate on this question any more, and I don't even know if it can be answered...
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Does anyone know what happens when an unstoppable force meets and immovable object? Can it even happen? I don't really know of any examples of an unstoppable force or an immovabel object if there even are any. So...
 
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The only thing that I can think of that might possibly qualify, and it's probably wrong, would be the singularity of a black hole where infinite gravity is trying to work upon infinitely compressed 'matter'.
 

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