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- jokebookservice1
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Paradoxes
The Britain American one isn't very paradoxical.
I mean.. it's the same issue going back 10 minutes in the past when you were in another room. Generally, there'd be two of you, right? One in Britain, one in America; each individual would experience only one.
I mean.. it's the same issue going back 10 minutes in the past when you were in another room. Generally, there'd be two of you, right? One in Britain, one in America; each individual would experience only one.
- Dabzers
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Confusion.Theoretically, both.So let's say you spent 10 days in Britain. You time traveled back 12 days and went to the United States. 2 days passed in the US, so now your past self just entered Britain.null island
At that moment in time, where would you be? Would you be in the US, or in Britain?
But what would you experience if you were in both places at the same time?
- fphiladelphia
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Yes.Confusion.Theoretically, both.So let's say you spent 10 days in Britain. You time traveled back 12 days and went to the United States. 2 days passed in the US, so now your past self just entered Britain.null island
At that moment in time, where would you be? Would you be in the US, or in Britain?
But what would you experience if you were in both places at the same time?
I'm back…..yay!
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- braxbroscratcher
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Incorrect. Technically, there are 2 yous - present and 12 days future you. 12 days future you would be what YOU experienced. Present you would be what you experienced 12 days ago.Confusion.Theoretically, both.So let's say you spent 10 days in Britain. You time traveled back 12 days and went to the United States. 2 days passed in the US, so now your past self just entered Britain.null island
At that moment in time, where would you be? Would you be in the US, or in Britain?
But what would you experience if you were in both places at the same time?
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- braxbroscratcher
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Well, it WAS created. Just in a time an infinite length away.You claim an item. After you are done using the item you go back in time, and put the item onto where you originally found it. Two paradoxes right there. How has erosion not affected the item? Who made the item in the first place?
This is similar to this paradox:
A man receives a book from an older man on how to create a time machine. He creates it, and gradually earns lots of money by betting on who will win races, and off the stock market, and that kind of stuff. Then, as an old man, he time travels back and gives the book to his younger self.
The book is neither created nor destroyed. How was it created?
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- -ShadowOfTheFuture-
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Incorrect. Technically, there are 2 yous - present and 12 days future you. 12 days future you would be what YOU experienced. Present you would be what you experienced 12 days ago.Confusion.Theoretically, both.So let's say you spent 10 days in Britain. You time traveled back 12 days and went to the United States. 2 days passed in the US, so now your past self just entered Britain.null island
At that moment in time, where would you be? Would you be in the US, or in Britain?
But what would you experience if you were in both places at the same time?
Well, there's the alternate universe theory…
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- jokebookservice1
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^ right. Perhaps if paradoxes involve these time machines, people explain what type of time machine they're using. Does it overwrite your previous life? Are there two yous?
- MCJB05
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IT'S TIME FOR…
MCJB05 Paradox #5 lol why did I do that as an introduction?
Pinocchio wants to make a joke. So he says, ‘Ok, I will make a joke…’ but he never makes a joke. Then his nose grows.
What if his nose growing is the joke?
Explination:
If the joke was Pinocchio's nose growing, he wouldn't be lying, meaning the nose wouldn't have grown, meaning there would be no joke, meaning his nose would grow, etc. etc, blowing up Pinocchio, his mind, and his poor, little head.
It's more complicated than usual, because it's a paradox to those who think it's funny, and not to those who don't.
This is a similar paradox to Pinocchio saying, ‘My nose will grow’.
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MCJB05 Paradox #5 lol why did I do that as an introduction?
Pinocchio wants to make a joke. So he says, ‘Ok, I will make a joke…’ but he never makes a joke. Then his nose grows.
What if his nose growing is the joke?
Explination:
If the joke was Pinocchio's nose growing, he wouldn't be lying, meaning the nose wouldn't have grown, meaning there would be no joke, meaning his nose would grow, etc. etc, blowing up Pinocchio, his mind, and his poor, little head.
It's more complicated than usual, because it's a paradox to those who think it's funny, and not to those who don't.
This is a similar paradox to Pinocchio saying, ‘My nose will grow’.
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- -ShadowOfTheFuture-
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You know your brother. But when he's wearing a hood, you don't know who he is. Therefore, you both know and do not know your brother.
I got this from a paradox book…
I got this from a paradox book…
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Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.
I got this from the same paradox book.
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Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.
I got this from the same paradox book.
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Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
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Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Every switch-off was followed by a switch-on, and every switch-on was followed by a switch-off…
Things get really weird when you reach infinity.
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- DominoDragon1
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Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
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Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
I got this from the same paradox book.
I'm back…..yay!
not really tho
- awsome_guy_360
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Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Lol, never thought of it that way.
Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.
It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.
No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
The question here would be “do (or did) you have horns, and did you loose them?”
At first thought, the answer would be “no, I don't have horns”, but what if you've lost them? By this paradox, there is no defining features that you've had horns in the past (such as stumps or bumps) and since people can be forgetful (or by this paradox, memory doesn't apply) you don't know if you either don't have horns, or if you've just lost them.
How you've lost them is a different story on it's own.
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- fphiladelphia
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I’m confused…..Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Lol, never thought of it that way.Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
The question here would be “do (or did) you have horns, and did you loose them?”
At first thought, the answer would be “no, I don't have horns”, but what if you've lost them? By this paradox, there is no defining features that you've had horns in the past (such as stumps or bumps) and since people can be forgetful (or by this paradox, memory doesn't apply) you don't know if you either don't have horns, or id you've just lost them.
How you've lost them is a different story on it's own.
I'm back…..yay!
not really tho
- Dabzers
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This topic is very confusingI’m confused…..Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Lol, never thought of it that way.Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
The question here would be “do (or did) you have horns, and did you loose them?”
At first thought, the answer would be “no, I don't have horns”, but what if you've lost them? By this paradox, there is no defining features that you've had horns in the past (such as stumps or bumps) and since people can be forgetful (or by this paradox, memory doesn't apply) you don't know if you either don't have horns, or id you've just lost them.
How you've lost them is a different story on it's own.
- fphiladelphia
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I guess that is kind of the point of itThis topic is very confusingI’m confused…..Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Lol, never thought of it that way.Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
The question here would be “do (or did) you have horns, and did you loose them?”
At first thought, the answer would be “no, I don't have horns”, but what if you've lost them? By this paradox, there is no defining features that you've had horns in the past (such as stumps or bumps) and since people can be forgetful (or by this paradox, memory doesn't apply) you don't know if you either don't have horns, or id you've just lost them.
How you've lost them is a different story on it's own.
I'm back…..yay!
not really tho
- Dabzers
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Yes it isI guess that is kind of the point of itThis topic is very confusingI’m confused…..Say that there's a lamp, and you have to switch it on and off in two minutes.Off, because by the time you get to really small increments of time, you will have to move your hand really fast. You then lose your grip on the switch and smash your hand into the lightbulb, effectively turning it off forever.
In one minute (1/2) you switch it on
In 30 seconds (1/2) you switch it off.
In 15 seconds (1/2) you switch it on again, and so on..
When two minutes pass, is the lamp on, or off?
Lol, never thought of it that way.Someone asks you if you've lost your horns. You obviously don't have horns. However, if you don't have horns, you couldn't have lost them.
I got this from the same paradox book.It's not a paradox, the answer is “no”.No offense, but that might not be the best paradox book.
The question here would be “do (or did) you have horns, and did you loose them?”
At first thought, the answer would be “no, I don't have horns”, but what if you've lost them? By this paradox, there is no defining features that you've had horns in the past (such as stumps or bumps) and since people can be forgetful (or by this paradox, memory doesn't apply) you don't know if you either don't have horns, or id you've just lost them.
How you've lost them is a different story on it's own.