Sunday, March 8, 2015

Arrow Paradox - VOP14

It's an argument by Zeno. When you analyse the trajectory of an arrow, the arrow moves through its starting point and the midpoint between the starting point and the target, and then from this midpoint to another midpoint between its current position and the target. If you follow this logic, there is an infinite number of midpoints between the starting point and the target, therefore no matter how far the arrow travels it will never reach the target itself. This paradox can be explored from the mathematics and philosophical perspective.

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