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    Achilles and the hare, or the arrow
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    Author: * antoninus Lucretius - 1 Post on this thread out of 654 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Oct 16, 2002 - 08:48

    Why does an arrow hits its target?
    It can be theorized that it never does: the arrow covers half the distance, then half the distance left, then half the distance left. In theory, using this way of reasoning, the arrow never reach the target. Yet it actually does. Apparently at some point, logic runs out of other halves..
    Never heard any answer about that one.
    It proves, however that at some point in the physical world, there is no other half any longer..
    And that makes me think that time has a lot to do with it.
    A "half", has a beginning and an end. Like we do. We cannot see it in any other way.
    The arrow going from the bow to the target will cover an "un-finite" distance. That works both ways. It is infinitely long, or infinitely short. It is our notion of time, linked to our mortality --we have a beginning and an end-- that makes us think of concepts such as "half".
    Pretty cloudy hmm?


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