Paradoxes

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

Let's all post as many paradoxes as we can think of at the moment.

Why? Because I love contradictions. I also love dividing by 0.

"You go back in time and you kill your own grandfather, yet then you would have never existed to kill your grandfather."

"0.99999-(repeating) is actually equal to 1."

"A hotel with infinite rooms is full, but it still has rooms to be filled."

"This statement is true.
The above statement is false."

I know that last one probably was not a paradox.

Begin.

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I wonder if this'll turn into a Forum Game?

 

[Pikaville]

God.........

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

God.........

That was a good one.

 

[Lythium]

Jumbo shrimp.

No wait, that's an oxymoron.

 

[POKE40]

"0.99999-(repeating) is actually equal to 1."

That is not a paradox

here is a quick explanation/

x = .9999999(repeating)

times the equation by ten.

10x = 9.9999999(repeating)

subtract the two together:

10x = 9.99999(repeating)
x = .999999999(repeating)

this equals:

9x = 9

Divide.

x = 1

substitution

.99999999(repeating) = 1

Sorry I just wanted to clarify.

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The Twin Paradox (theory of relativity)
is one of my favorites.

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

That is not a paradox

here is a quick explanation/



times the equation by ten.



subtract the two together:



this equals:



substitution


Sorry I just wanted to clarify.

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The Twin Paradox (theory of relativity)
is one of my favorites.

Well then Wikipedia was wrong.

****it.

 

[Scott!]

Thank you Poke40; I was about to point that out too. And wikipedia's page for .999... doesn't say that it is a paradox, only that it appears as one to students who have trouble grasping its full meaning, or who let their intuitions supersede arithmetic logic. However, it is listed in the category of mathematical paradoxes. I wonder if this is an error, or, more likely, it was put there due to popular belief, and it being a common debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

 

[highfive]

Trust me

I'm a liar.

 

[Clownbot]

"All white people are racist."

Spoiler

Does that qualify? <.<

 

[AltF4]

A Paradox is merely a true statement which disobeys "common sense". It is a fact of the world which is counter intuitive.

But keep in mind that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. It doesn't care one bit about how you THINK it should work. It just keeps on going, doing it's thing.

There is a common misconception that a paradox represents a contradiction in the laws of the universe, but this is just simply not true. So, sorry, Poke40. But Wikipedia was actually right about the .9999... = 1 being a paradox thing.

Let's all post as many paradoxes as we can think of at the moment.

Why? Because I love contradictions. I also love dividing by 0.

"You go back in time and you kill your own grandfather, yet then you would have never existed to kill your grandfather."

This is commonly called the "Grandfather Paradox" and it demonstrates why you cannot travel back in time. Or, rather, that IF you do, you cannot choose your actions while there.

"0.99999-(repeating) is actually equal to 1."

This is also a true statement, which is counter intuitive, thus a decent paradox.

"A hotel with infinite rooms is full, but it still has rooms to be filled."

This is a very short description of a much longer paradox of infinite series. It would be said more rigorously as "A hotel with infinite rooms which is filled to capacity can hold another infinite number of people, without kicking anyone out."

"This statement is true.
The above statement is false."

This is not a paradox. It is not even a statement. It is neither true nor false.

 

[highfive]

A Paradox is merely a true statement which disobeys "common sense". It is a fact of the world which is counter intuitive.

But keep in mind that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. It doesn't care one bit about how you THINK it should work. It just keeps on going, doing it's thing.

There is a common misconception that a paradox represents a contradiction in the laws of the universe, but this is just simply not true. So, sorry, Poke40. But Wikipedia was actually right about the .9999... = 1 being a paradox thing.



This is commonly called the "Grandfather Paradox" and it demonstrates why you cannot travel back in time. Or, rather, that IF you do, you cannot choose your actions while there.



This is also a true statement, which is counter intuitive, thus a decent paradox.



This is a very short description of a much longer paradox of infinite series. It would be said more rigorously as "A hotel with infinite rooms which is filled to capacity can hold another infinite number of people, without kicking anyone out."



This is not a paradox. It is not even a statement. It is neither true nor false.

This is my rebuttal:

Canadian Army.

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

A Paradox is merely a true statement which disobeys "common sense". It is a fact of the world which is counter intuitive.

But keep in mind that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. It doesn't care one bit about how you THINK it should work. It just keeps on going, doing it's thing.

There is a common misconception that a paradox represents a contradiction in the laws of the universe, but this is just simply not true. So, sorry, Poke40. But Wikipedia was actually right about the .9999... = 1 being a paradox thing.



This is commonly called the "Grandfather Paradox" and it demonstrates why you cannot travel back in time. Or, rather, that IF you do, you cannot choose your actions while there.



This is also a true statement, which is counter intuitive, thus a decent paradox.



This is a very short description of a much longer paradox of infinite series. It would be said more rigorously as "A hotel with infinite rooms which is filled to capacity can hold another infinite number of people, without kicking anyone out."



This is not a paradox. It is not even a statement. It is neither true nor false.

My God, you take it much too seriously.

All of you, I intended this thread to be at least one bit funny.
I guess one cannot post a funny thread on Smash Boards.

You don't have to ruin it by proving the 'paradoxes' wrong or saying that they're right, just take a humourous look at things.

 

[Mota]

It's opposite day.

I know, that I know nothing at all.

 

[Maniclysane]

Competitive Brawl.

lolololol

 

[.Marik]

"I close my eyes; in order to see".

I forget the author of that quote, but it makes so much sense.

 

[GreenKirby]

All gays want to get married
All men don't want to get married

So what about gay men?

 

[Fuelbi]

phillip j fry. All yall futurama fans know what I mean

 

[Jonas]

Pinocchio: "My nose will start to grow once I've finished this sentence"

Or we can skip the whole Pinocchio business and say "this sentence is a lie"

 

[Fuelbi]

If you **** your grandmother while traveling time you end up being your own grandfather

 

[UberMario]

The Paradoxical Frog

 

[CaptainEvilStomper9]

Okay this one is kind of weird.

Let's say you were dying of thirst in a desert, now in this situation nothing is better then water.
Water is even better then lets say....juice but juice is better then nothing being that if you have nothing to drink, juice would help you survive.

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

Okay this one is kind of weird.

Let's say you were dying of thirst in a desert, now in this situation nothing is better then water.
Water is even better then lets say....juice but juice is better then nothing being that if you have nothing to drink, juice would help you survive.

How exactly is this a paradox though?

 

[Fuelbi]

... is that like a riddle or something because I see no way how thats a paradox... water is good but in its absense you drink juice....

 

[CaptainEvilStomper9]

No it's more of a play on the word "Nothing". In that situation nothing is better than water. Juice though is better then nothing as it would prolong your survival in a hot desert longer then drinking nothing would.

Nothing>Water
Water>Juice
Juice>Nothing

 

[Fuelbi]

Oh god my brain hurts trying to understand that lol

 

[Clownbot]

No, I see what he's trying to say.

In the desert, nothing is better than water, because you need it to stay alive. But at the same time, water's better than nothing, because with nothing, you'd die.

 

[Fuelbi]

ohhh I just got it but where does the juice come in?

 

[GALE 14]

We polish the Polish furniture.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

A farm can produce produce

The soldier decided to desert in the desert.

The present is a good time to present the present to the President

I did not object to the object.

The insurance for the invalid was invalid.

The bandage was wound around the wound.

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

They were too close to the door to close it.

The buck does funny things when the does are present.

They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.

To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

I shed a tear when I saw the tear in my clothes.

I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

is it enogh???

 

[GALE 14]

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. And while no one knows what is in a hotdog, you can be pretty sure it isn't canine. English muffins were not invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

yes that was all i know^^

 

[CaptainEvilStomper9]

No one gets me ): stuff like this is hard to explain on forums.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

Gale how are any of those paradoxes?

 

[UberMario]

Those aren't paradoxes Gale, they're homonyms. >_>

This is a paradox:

The racer that won finished last.

EvilStomper9, I saw the paradox the first time, very clever.

EDIT: There, now it is.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

Not really Uber. He could have been in the lead at one point yet he could crash (assuming it's a car race) and then lose.

 

[_KuyaSombreo_]

phillip j fry. All yall futurama fans know what I mean

my english teacher actually used futurama episodes to help us understand paradoxes and the multiverse theory

 

[Denzi]

The red statement is true.

The yellow statement is false.

 

[CaptainEvilStomper9]

Not really Uber. He could have been in the lead at one point yet he could crash (assuming it's a car race) and then lose.

No because he said the racer that won finished last, the only loop hole I see in that is if the "race" was to see who could finish last or something or if there was only three racers and he "won" bronze. Ya those are pretty ****ty loop holes.

 

[Fuelbi]

Well the race could have been one of those everybody wins races. He couldve come last and still win because everybody is a winner

 

[UberMario]

No because he said the racer that won finished last, the only loop hole I see in that is if the "race" was to see who could finish last or something or if there was only three racers and he "won" bronze. Ya those are pretty ****ty loop holes.

Well, on his behalf, I edited my post after he posted.

Paradox:

You're running up to the plate, but the plate is on the ground, so you're going down to the plate, but if you're on the ground, then you can't move down, so you're running up to the plate.

 

[Fuelbi]

How much would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck would chuck wood..... **** it I just realized this is a paradox thread *facepalm* lol

 

[UberMario]

How about:

If a woodchuck chucked woodchucks while getting chucked by a woodchuck being chucked by woodchucks, and all of the woodchucks chucked chucked woodchucks before, which was the first woodchuck to chuck woodchucks?