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That thin line of dust left over when you sweep into a dustpan is a real-life zemo paradox.
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Zeno. The name is Zeno.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Furthermore, it's "Zeno's Paradox", (as in, attributed to Zeno) not "The Zeno Paradox"
Could also be related to the Zima paradox: nobody wants to drink it, somebody keeps buying it but it still won't disappear from the shelves despite taking a decade off from production.
It's also an example of calculus because the amount of dust approaches zero, but is never quite zero
Thank fuck for the vacuum. The Son of Shark, the Anti-Calculus, Destroyer of Integrals
It's also an example of dust being fucking annoying!
That thin line of dust is just a reminder that you need to vacuum after you sweep.
No matter how far we progress as a species, that line will remain.
What makes Zeno’s paradox a paradox is that, despite the logical requirement that moving objects must cover an infinite number of sub-intervals in order to do so, we do, in fact, observe objects move.
But we never observe that final bit of dust getting successfully swept up, so in that case the paradox is averted.