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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Bossieman on October 25, 2003, 08:02:06 AM

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Bossieman on October 25, 2003, 08:02:06 AM

A child that is 6 years old is young, right? A child that is 6 weeks and 1 second is also young. So that means that a child that is 6 weeks and 2 seconds is also young(one second doesnt make the difference). Continiue this and you come to the conclusion that everyone is young, no matter what age.
Interesting indeed.

Any ideas to solve this one?

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Deadly Hamster on October 25, 2003, 08:46:16 AM

Well that is because "Young" and "old" are just words, words that define too things that don\'t actually exist scientificly... except i\'d say when yer cells stop dividing and you start dying.. then you are old..

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Bossieman on October 25, 2003, 08:51:52 AM

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Originally posted by Deadly Hamster
Well that is because "Young" and "old" are just words, words that define too things that don\'t actually exist scientificly... except i\'d say when yer cells stop dividing and you start dying.. then you are old..

Well I can change the paradox to something that is physical. Lets say you have stack of 10000 of stones. Now you take one of them away, the other 9999 are still a stack, right?

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: politiepet on October 25, 2003, 08:58:58 AM

it\'s like that story with the rabbit and the turtle....
in a sprint, no matter how small the headstart the turtle has....if it\'s there he\'ll win

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Deadly Hamster on October 25, 2003, 09:28:22 AM

uhh.. yeah itd still be a stack...

But 11 eggs isn\'t a dozen..

i don\'t understand what yer trying to get at here :-P

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on October 25, 2003, 09:34:35 AM

Niether does he, so don\'t worry.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: SwifDi on October 25, 2003, 09:47:26 AM

seriously... wtf?

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Unicron! on October 25, 2003, 09:59:10 AM

You people dont like pondering do you?

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: SwifDi on October 25, 2003, 10:00:26 AM

I\'m not going to waste a good ponder on such a vague theory.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Deadly Hamster on October 25, 2003, 10:00:28 AM

I do, but umm...

No matter how many stones there are it\'d still be a stack, because a stack, is just a word... not an ammount...

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on October 25, 2003, 10:16:42 AM

Dude,. you don\'t get it.

If you are six years old, and your brother is six months old - you are still young.

Get it?
 You are six years old but you are considered young .

Oh and if you remove a stone from a stack - it\'s still a stack, but with one less.
Oh, how amazingly deep.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: videoholic on October 25, 2003, 10:26:03 AM

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Originally posted by Unicron!
You people dont like pondering dont you?

Double negative....  Grammar alert Grammar alert!!!!!!

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on October 25, 2003, 10:36:19 AM

^^
Dork.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Bossieman on October 25, 2003, 10:47:29 AM

This is actually a real paradox. It is well known and has not yet been solved.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: (e) on October 25, 2003, 10:51:02 AM

Its one of those things that is useless to solve.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Deadly Hamster on October 25, 2003, 10:52:51 AM

I don\'t see how its a paradox if you change the words.

About the stones one... that is not even a paradox.. of course it\'ll still be a stack, unless a stack is "A pile of 10,000 items"

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Kurt Angle on October 25, 2003, 10:53:26 AM

Everything is relative.

There I just solved the problem!

THREAD CLOSED ;)

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Black Samurai on October 25, 2003, 11:04:36 AM

Which one is a real paradox?

The first one is arbitrary. 15 years old is young compared to 25 but old compared to 5. So its not really a paradox.

The second one is also not a paradox. A "stack" is not a unit of measurement so its not a contradiction to say that 10, 20, or 10,000 rocks is a stack.

A real paradox would be saying that the curvature of an infinite circle is a straight line.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Unicron! on October 25, 2003, 11:32:16 AM

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Originally posted by videoholic
Double negative....  Grammar alert Grammar alert!!!!!!

Grammar alert?What grammar alert?I dont see anything wrong with my grammar :D

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on October 25, 2003, 11:35:38 AM

Thank God, Gohan got the point.
Now I can close this pointless thread.

Title: Paradoxes to think of.
Post by: Samwise on October 26, 2003, 12:18:11 AM

Even if 6 weeks + 1 sec is young, and so is +2 secs - at some point this \'young\' person would have reached 90 years. I\'m sure we can agree 90 years is not young for a person. :eek:

EDIT: Lol sorry, didn\'t see it was closed.