
Paradox
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Zeno's Most Memorable Paradox
Zeno created a number of paradoxes to show that his teacher slash lover, parmenides was right about the fact that there's no motion in the universe. A lot of these paradoxes have to do with motion and infinity, and they puzzle scientists and mathematicians for millennia. Although i do have to say that some have been more recently solved by quantum physics. In fact, einsein's nobile prize could be construed as his resolving one of zeno's paradoxes. Ye in zeno's most memorable paradox is arguably the achilles and the tortoise paradox. Because who does not love a paradox that pars a really hot animal? O hoti.
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