OmegaXII wrote:
how the heck do you see a black hole??? its black, space is black so you cant see anything
That logic COMPLETELY fails. You can't see a black hole because light cannot escape it. We measure them by observer their effect on their environments
OmegaXII wrote:
the immovable object and the unstoppable force are both implicitly assumed to be indestructible or else the question would have a trivial resolution
incorrect, no such assumption is needed.
OmegaXII wrote:
no force is completely unstoppable and there are no immovable objects and cannot be any as even a minuscule force will cause a slight acceleration on an object of any mass
Perhaps not today, but there may be developments to this effect in the future. However, since this is according to modern, not future laws of physics, it would be illogical to argue by this. Instead, we should, as I have, try and argue this from a logical standpoint, through contradiction.
Ponk wrote:
daerduo wrote:
We've never seen a black hole either yet we can describe it. People have also described black holes to me very well, and i have never seen them. All pictures of black holes are conceptual (or at least im aware of). The problem isn't with "we can't imagine it", the problem is that it is logically impossible to exist.
That's what the Hubble Telescope is for ;]
Hubble telescope cannot see a black hole. It can only see the effects of it. I'm still lol'ing at omega's gigantic fail.
bork9128 wrote:
nd i agree with the gravity is a constant force not unstoppable force
if you insist that it is then i would suggest the earth as the immovable object because relatively it can't move and even is completely stopped traveling through space altogether it wouldn't change the interaction between the object affected by gravity and the earths surface
and if perceived as such a situation the result is clear the immovable object wins
erm...the earth revolves around the sun...something caused by gravity...?
bork9128 wrote:
but as this a clear situation paradox trying to answer it logically is impossible
there are reasons they are called paradoxes
you cannot start off with the assumption that you are dealing with a paradox. For example, if constant force is an unstoppable force (which it isn't, just trying to make a point here), then it wouldn't be a paradox. If you go by the accepted standards/definitions of unstoppable force, then it is a paradox. What you're doing is a bit like assuming an answer in a proof and then going on to prove the answer in a roundabout way using your assumption. It doesn't work.