Any one know a good paradox or two? Heres a couple: 1) If god can do anything, could he make a door that he cannot open? 2) What would happen if Pinocchio said, "My nose will now grow"? __
if you didnt like Apple pie.. Why would you care to create a universe, just to make one from scratch..
Yes. And if he got tired of not being able to open it, he could just make it disappear. The universe would implode. Here's a real-life paradox: How can the subatomic constituents of matter behave in some situations like waves, but in other situations like particles?
i have a pair of camouflage pants, but i can't find them not a paradox, i'm just in a bad mood, sorry
You have to define God first. This is concerning God's omnipotence. Meaning God has all the power that exists. But God doesn't have power that doesn't exist. So if you're describing a power that doesn't exist, then it doesn't contradict omnipotence. I don't think that would technically be a lie even if it didn't happen. It would be more like Pinnochio was experimenting with his nose. I mean, why would Pinnochio walk up to someone and say, "My nose will now grow"? A lie has to be something that could possibly deceive. Or at least, there is one word for two different instances then. Because Pinnochio could say, "I like my nose," and there's no way of telling whether that's true. Whereas you would be able to tell whether Pinnochio was telling the truth or not depending on whether or not his nose grew. So if Pinnochio's nose grew, you would know that Pinnochio's nose doesn't only grow when he lies; it also grows when he tells the truth, sometimes.
that might not actually be a paradox, I mean the two contradict each other, but the explanation is actually quite simple: Im sure you have heard of the double slit experiment so I'll just be forward. the basic constituents of matter are believed to behave both like waves and particles because the subatomic world is too small to be entirely determined, this is the copenhagen interpretation of QM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation As a side thought, I am curious as to whether a particle might behave like a wave due to force carrying waves produced (possibly) by the atoms planck scale object, a string. These forces might radiate from the atom in much the same way that gravity waves are emitted from powerful cosmic collisions (black holes in collision) But alas, Ill not hijack this thread any longer but I do have a paradox to add: Consider a time traveler with only the ability to travel backwards in time. This time traveler decides to take a trip back about 100 years to the time of his grandfather. Once he arrives, he stakes out his grandfather and immediately shoots him dead with a pistol. Does the time traveler die as well because he just killed the man who would eventually be partly responsible for his birth in the first place? this is called the grandfather paradox. (ps. +20 internets to the first person to give a solution to this paradox!)
I have thought about this before and I think I have a solid theory. If you think of time in a linear way where there is only one story of the universe then yes this is a paradox. However, paradoxes don't tend to occur in nature. For the sake of argument we will also say that backwards time machines can exist. What I think is that if you were to travel back in time you would end up in a parallel timeline that was co-existing with our "present" time. so if you killed your grandfather there then nothing would happen except that you wouldn't be born in that "time-dimension". But you yourself would still continue to exist because you originated in a seperate "time-demension". To further describe tie theory I would say that there exists an infinite number of "time-dimensions" that all simultaneously exist, one for every moment in time.
