On this particular ride, your hosts Steve and Mal explore whether motion is even possible.
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Show notes:
Later episodes in this podcast are not as nerdily quasi-mathematical as this one. This recording, it turns out, is but a glimpse of the insight and merriment to come.
That said…
One way that the Second (not Third) Law of Thermodynamics has been described is this: Matter and energy have the tendency to reach a state of uniformity, a state of maximum disorder, or entropy. (In that sense, everything does degrade. Bummer.)
Zeno, who lived in ancient Greece in the 5th Century B.C., proposed many paradoxes. Among them were four paradoxes (or arguments against the possibility ) of motion. Of those , the best were the Achilles-and-the-tortoise paradox, the Dichotomy paradox and the Arrow paradox. These are described, for example, at https://iep.utm.edu/zenos-paradoxes/ .
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2 responses to “Episode 1: Zeno’s Paradox”
Many thanks, dragonmom. Your entirely impartial and fully astute comment much appreciated.
~Steve
Thanks, Sandra. Also, wonderful meeting you and Wendy on the visit with Nicky.
~Steve