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Know an interesting paradox? Post it here!


For those of you that have no idea what a paradox is here is an example. What came first the chicken or the egg?

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JJ52
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If a tree falls in the woods and noeone hears it, does it make a sound?


I think this has been answered. (this is what I think the answer is, not entirely sure tho.) It does not make a sound since sound is only present when someone eardrum is vibrating. Therefore, since noones eardrum is vibrating, there is no sound. =P
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I think this has been answered. (this is what I think the answer is, not entirely sure tho.) It does not make a sound since sound is only present when someone eardrum is vibrating. Therefore, since noones eardrum is vibrating, there is no sound. =P


It creates sound waves, and the animals in the forest still hear it. There is a sound, it's just that no person hears it.

Glass half full or half empty? I say it's at half capacity.
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An adult male barber shaves all men who do not shave themselves, and no one else. Can he shave himself?


yes he CAN but that doesn't mean he WILL

get it?
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From a true false game one another forum.
The next post will be false.
See if you said it was false then it would be true then it would be falses then true then false then true then false
and if you said true then it would be false etc.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh paradoxes

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Paradoxes are like never ending do... loop statements in visual basic.

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If I replace one piece of my car, it will still be the same car. Therefore, I could do this for every piece of my car piece by piece, and it would still be the same car.

Catch 22: If you are insane, you do not have to fly in the war, but you must request to be grounded. But anyone who doesn't want to fly is obviously sane. So therefore if you request to be grounded, you are forced to fly. Anyone who wants to fly is obviously insane, but they can't be grounded until they request to be. And when they do that...

In order to achieve peace, we must prepare for war.

After realizing the quality (or lack thereof) of these paradoxes, I am going to use my time machine to prevent myself from posting it in the first place.

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Let's say there is a bullet which can shoot through any barrier. Let's also say there is an absolutely bullet-proof armor which no object can penetrate. What will happen if such a bullet hits such an armor?

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What will happen if such a bullet hits such an armor?
It depends on what way it hits the armor. If it hits just a little bit by the side of the armor, then not much will happen. Just a scratch by the side of the armor should do.
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After realizing the quality (or lack thereof) of these paradoxes, I am going to use my time machine to prevent myself from posting it in the first place.

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox (or rather, the people quoted in it): If you go back in time and change something, it will not affect your present time, because it has already happened. Thus you are meant to change it, and did so back in time, and the consequences it might have had has already happened.
Woohoo.
Also, the above reminds me of the object that moved and the object that stands still.
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Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox


That and the Opal Deception are the only bad books in that series. Though, if the author follows any sort of pattern, Atlantis Complex looks to be below average as well.
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It creates sound waves, and the animals in the forest still hear it. There is a sound, it's just that no person hears it.


Subject to whether there are any animals nearby the fell tree. If there are no animals in the forest, nor humans is there any sound? Alas, I find this relates too much to Shordinger's Cat and so I can't answer this.
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That and the Opal Deception are the only bad books in that series. Though, if the author follows any sort of pattern, Atlantis Complex looks to be below average as well.

Wow, unrelated. Also, I don't care.

Subject to whether there are any animals nearby the fell tree. If there are no animals in the forest, nor humans is there any sound? Alas, I find this relates too much to Shordinger's Cat and so I can't answer this.

Sound: Movement of molecules in air that hits the ear drum, right? If there is no one there, there is no ear drums to get hit by these movements, thus there is no sound.
And the Cat is in a state of both. ttly the best answer > >
/Good for nothing answers
Elitemagical
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Sound: Movement of molecules in air that hits the ear drum, right? If there is no one there, there is no ear drums to get hit by these movements, thus there is no sound.
And the Cat is in a state of both. ttly the best answer > >


The movement is still there, a human can't hear it though. That does not necessarily mean it does not exist, it just means that no-one knows if it truly does exist. I said it relates to Schrödinger's Cat because until we observe the cat or hear the noise we cannot prove that the sound does or does not exist.
Cenere
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The movement is still there, a human can't hear it though. That does not necessarily mean it does not exist, it just means that no-one knows if it truly does exist.

But it becomes sound when it makes the ear drum move, otherwise it is just air movements. So technically there is no sound, because there is no eardrums that can make the movement put it into movements as well, which the brain will know as sound. It is just air movement.
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What hapens when an unstopable force hits an unmoveable object

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