On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 10:15:28 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:21 PM <agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > >*If you try to traverse a unit distance in infinite steps such as 1/2, >> 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and so forth, the sum converges to 1, but you will never >> traverse the distance even though the sum converges.* > > > Never? If what you say is true then calculus is wrong. I don't think > calculus is wrong. > > John K Clark >
*Nothing wrong with calculus. Rather, you can think of Zeno's paradox as an infinite sequence of tasks, each one separated by a finite fixed pause. The complete task cannot be completed in finite time even though the spatial sum converges, allegedly showing that motion is impossible. The solution is the recognition that space and time are not infinitely divisible. AG* > > > > > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
