What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?They would pass through each other.
Because for an unstoppable force to exist, an immovable object would be impossible, as they both imply that the other cannot not exist, the situation is impossible. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?The unstoppable force would simply go around the immovable object. If that's not possible then it would go through it. Either scenario maintains the properties of both parties.
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?Wow, scrolling through here and it took this long for someone to point this out. I couldn't believe it.(Original post by sheldonxp)
By definition, such objects cannot co-exist in the same universe.
If a force is unstoppable, that implies that there is no object which can possibly withstand it, and hence once that term is introduced speaking about 'immovable objects' makes no sense. Same works the other way around. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?What I was thinking(Original post by DivineIntervention)
The unstoppable force stops, the immovable object moves.
Other than that, they cannot exist in the same universe. Or they need redefining. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?It's a fun paradox(Original post by Nightseye)
What I was thinking
Other than that, they cannot exist in the same universe. Or they need redefining.
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?um, hello? neither the unstoppable force nor the immovable object can actually exist. oh, sure, we can have very difficult to stop forces, and almost impossible to move objects, but physics does not really allow for absolutes like that.
