Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure none of these exist so idk why it bothered any1 in the first place.
Neutrinos are pretty close to an unstoppable force: they can pass right through the earth without being stopped.
I believe this is an expectation of dark matter, to being even closer to an unstoppable force. Perhaps a reason we haven’t found it yet would a because we don’t have a detector that can stop it
You clearly haven’t met my mother.
Is the an unstoppable force or an immovable object or a little bit of both?
Both.
It can bother people who believe in omnipotent deities.
There are some pretty close physical analogs that are fun to think about. You cant move a black hole by exerting physical force on it in the normal way so practically infinite gravity wells are like a immovable “object”, though if you’re clever and nerdy enough you can cook some fun ways to harness its gravitational rotation into a kind of engine, or throw another black hole at it to create gravitational waves which are like a kind of unstoppable force which can just barely be detected with our finest LIGO sensors spanning a sizable length of the planet.
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You can attract a black hole using gravity tho
These kinds of contradicitons exist in made structures, such as laws, rules and regulations. In situations like that, a judge has to pick which rule to follow and which one to ignore. The first time that happens, it becomes the standard solution (precedent) for those kinds of problems.
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
if people only bothered to think about things that exist (especially things that they think exist) we would probably go the way of the dodo. funnily enough that would prevent the dodos from going that way but whatever.
I highly recommend watching the Vsauce video on supertasks—it’s a great video as expected from Vsauce but also ends on a great note about people and their tendency to think about things like this.