some scientific shit that blows my mind

a topic i brought up in the cipher..
ight, my question is, Can you get closer and closer and closer to a object without touching it?

these are two sides to the question i thought of that are against each other:

1) yes, because you can move so slightly microscopically that you could keep going on forever without touching the object

or

2) no, because the object is there, and the closer you keep moving to it, you'll eventually reach it


What do you think?

c'mon yall

thats called the dichotomy paradox. one of zeno the greek philosophers 9 paradoxs.


logically it should be so that you would never get there because you would always split the distance and that would go on infinitely.

practically, you always get there. so ya.

and lemme guess you are high. bc that is some shit you think about when you are ripped.


"but like you can never get there maaan."

asymptotes n shit my G

this shit was mentioned on the science channel last weekend. that dichotomy paradox... yup

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Originally Posted by whitey

thats called the dichotomy paradox. one of zeno the greek philosophers 9 paradoxs.


logically it should be so that you would never get there because you would always split the distance and that would go on infinitely.

practically, you always get there. so ya.

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i didn't know it was an existing idea, thanks

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Originally Posted by Blunt-head Paco

a topic i brought up in the cipher

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smoking cipher with my friends and we talk about the craziest shit

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Originally Posted by whitey

and lemme guess you are high. bc that is some shit you think about when you are ripped.


"but like you can never get there maaan."

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so i was ripped lol

you will eventually get there, you still have momentum.

Shit I've def thought about this before even tried to get really really close w/o touching somethin (i mean laying on the floor, one eye open, one hand stabalizing the other). But it's truth that you can move towards an object indefinitely and never touch it, you just lessen the distance. Numbers go FOREVER.

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so i was ripped lol

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hah, i feel you man. your mind wanders when your high.

It's similar to the paradox that states that if you shoot an arrow, the arrow never reaches its target in one solid straight line, because before it reaches the target, it must first reach half way, and then half of that, and then half of that, etc..for infinity. Wikipedia has a long list of many paradoxes.

interesting thread

technically you never touch anything. the particles that make up your atoms never touch each other or touch other atoms an their particles.

as a matter of fact, on the atomic level,99.999% of your body is composed of empty space. the .001% that is not empty space is vibrating energy which is also non-physical (empty) space.

solidity is an illusion.

Let's talk about Schrödinger's cat......



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

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Originally Posted by STYLE

technically you never touch anything. the particles that make up your atoms never touch each other or touch other atoms an their particles.

as a matter of fact, on the atomic level,99.999% of your body is composed of empty space. the .001% that is not empty space is vibrating energy which is also non-physical (empty) space.

solidity is an illusion.

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i proved Schrödinger's theory the night i ate bout an oz of shrooms and couldn't tell if i was dead or not.
"my physics is way beyond the quantum/
i raise planes like i switch lanes in a big tonka/
with indian broads and a pocket full of big wampum/
u light years behind, u rubbbin ur yes and still coughin/"
-STYLE

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I can walk through walls with the power of dance.........

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heavy.

Infinity explained.......

You can tell by the look in my eyes that in that moment my particles were touching external particles, such was the energy produced by my rapid and vigorous arm movements.

That's quantum entanglement demonstrated in the flesh.

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Originally Posted by NELSON MUNTZ

technically you never touch anything. the particles that make up your atoms never touch each other or touch other atoms an their particles.

as a matter of fact, on the atomic level,99.999% of your body is composed of empty space. the .001% that is not empty space is vibrating energy which is also non-physical (empty) space.

solidity is an illusion.

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So it's the energy that touches?

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Originally Posted by dr. Julius hibbert

you can tell by the look in my eyes that in that moment my particles were touching external particles, such was the energy produced by my rapid and vigorous arm movements.

That's quantum entanglement demonstrated in the flesh.

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lol

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Originally Posted by FMJ

So it's the energy that touches?

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energy is nonphysical in the context of touch. energy is hard to define but you could call it "activity" and its unobservable directly. we only observe energy's effect on something else.

so no, energy does not touch. but fields, created by energy, interact.
what we perceive as the sensation of touch, is electromagnetic in nature.

the interaction of the field of your hand with the field of a "solid object" triggers an electrical impulse. that impulse is only digital(on/off) data that your brain constructs into information. your soul digests that information as a sensation.

nothing ever touches. this would be a good legal defense for a molester. JASPER...you listening?

Next up - Gavin explains to people how irrespective of popular thought, the earth is in fact flat!

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Originally Posted by NELSON MUNTZ

energy is nonphysical in the context of touch. energy is hard to define but you could call it "activity" and its unobservable directly. we only observe energy's effect on something else.

so no, energy does not touch. but fields, created by energy, interact.
what we perceive as the sensation of touch, is electromagnetic in nature.

the interaction of the field of your hand with the field of a "solid object" triggers an electrical impulse. that impulse is only digital(on/off) data that your brain constructs into information. your soul digests that information as a sensation.

nothing ever touches. this would be a good legal defense for a molester. JASPER...you listening?

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