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djfinalmix
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Nomad

The question is simple... What would happen when an unstoppable force collided with an unmovable object?
Will both be destroyed?
Will nothing happen?
Will the world explode?

State your opinion and discuss.

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driejen
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Nomad

I personally think that the unstoppable force would simply go through the immovable object.

That is assuming that matter can go through matter with no interaction whatsoever. An assumption that is not based on reality.
Einfach
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Unstoppable force: within the event horizon of a black hole.
Immovable object: does not exist. In a vacuum, even a pebble that hit an unmoving boulder would move it slightly.

AnaLoGMunKy
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Unstoppable force: within the event horizon of a black hole.


Do black holes not shoot jets of radiation out tho. Seems like something escapes.
Sonatavarius
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Farmer

Christian Bale = Batman
Heath Ledger = Joker
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nvm.... i am not going to continue. but u may get the idea from what i left

dyrnwyn
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The force can't pass through the object because then it technically wouldn't "hit" the object. I like the splitting idea, although that would only work if the object was of a shape to split the force. Say an unstoppable force moved directly downward into an immovable bowl. It couldn't be deflected without at some point having a speed of zero.

WlZARD
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That's like asking what would happen if Chuck Norris was cloned and the two Norris's round house kicked each other.
Or asking what happens when you devide by zero...
There is no answer, and if there were, it would probably be very destructive.

Joe96
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Perfect time to slide in a yo mama joke o_O
But I won't though.

sk8brder246
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Nomad

the unstopable would then go upward from the unmovable object and continue on its merry way

Sonatavarius
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Farmer

dividing by zero does not give zero as the solution. there is, in fact, no solution

Einfach
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Nomad

@Sonatavirus:

lim as x --> 0 of x/x = 1

HA! division of 0/0 without actually dividing by 0

Sonatavarius
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Farmer

as you get closer to zero it does in fact get closer to 1. but it never reaches it. solving for a limit is not the same thing as solving for the solution.

Einfach
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Nomad

Quite frankly, there is no such thing as an immovable object.

And earlier, someone said that black holes emit radiation - and yes, they must if they are subject to entropy.

Entropy: energy tends towards chaos - like the molecules of dye when you put a drop of dye in a cup of water. So if there is more order in one place, there must be more disorder elsewhere.

So yes, there is no unstoppable force, even though the event horizon of a black hole is subject to enough gravity to prevent light's escape.

Darkroot
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Quite frankly, there is no such thing as an immovable object.


There could be. We are working under the impression that this question is contained in our universe or dimension but in a multiverse there could exist a complete different universe in such as thing might be plausible to some degree because the...basic underlying laws would be very different.
Sonatavarius
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maybe our existence is just a suped up version of a side scrolling video game... we never actually move... the terrain just scolls underneath us and over us...

Einfach
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Nomad

@Darkroot - "In this universe" is assumed, because we cannot know about other universes - what if matter cannot exist in some other universes altogether?

@Sonatavarius - Occam's Razor

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