Further proof that our material world has some major flaws.

Main thesis: Movement is impossible, it's all a construct of our mind.

This greek philosopher, Zeno of Elea, gave a mathematical proof that Achilles can never catch the turtle, even if he's exponentially faster.

Achilles always needs to run half the distance to catch the turtle. Let's say there's a mile between the two.
1)Achilles successfully runs half a mile. So there's another half left.
2)Then he runs half of the distance left. The remaining distance is now 1/4
3)Only a quarter mile left. So he now runs half the distance left. a Half of 1/4 = 1/8.
4)For the remaining distance, he's able to run half of an 1/8.
5)Now only 1/16 of the distance is left, could he catch the fucking turtle? Naah, he has to run half of the distance first. Which makes the remaining distance 1/32 now. After that there's only 1/64...........1/128...........1/256

And on, and on... Achill can NEVER catch the turtle simply because he's always condemned to run half of the remaining distance (1/infinity), before actually running the whole mile.

In other words, this is a strong, very rational (albeit hard to believe by physical standards) argument that movement is impossible.



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