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Logic paradoxes always did (and still do) blow my mind:

1: The farther out in space you look, the farther back in time you are seeing. If you could look back all the way to the big bang, you would be looking (billions of miles away) at the inside of a universe about the size of a grape fruit (or whenever super-inflation was supposed to start).

2. You cannot move. In order to move between A and B, you must first move half way between the two. etc.

3. Some people "invest" in the lotto.



Forgive me but how is moving half way between two points not moving? Did you mean "You cannot arrive"?


I believe the idea is that the problem of moving is atomic. To move, you must know how to move (assuming the world is not discrete).

It is the same as "you cannot arrive", except in reverse. Or that "you cannot rotate one of two parallel lines", because the jump from parallel to intersecting is elusive.




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