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Zeno's Paradoxes
In Our Time: Philosophy
What's So Fascinating About Infinity?
In the physical reality, we on't have a problem with these things, right? We can do this, run archilles. Can overtake the tortoise, no problem. But yet, in mathematics, which we use in order to describe the physical reality,. there seemed to be a real problem with this, dealing with infinity. So that's why matematicians were really fighting with that and saying, ok a, if we don't want a contradiction at the very basis of our science - i think you've used the word 'ridiculous', not me but away they go.
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