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?How can it break without moving?(Original post by green.tea)
The immovable object breaks.
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?hmm. ok.
I guess an object could only be immovable by allowing an unstoppable force to pass through or an unstoppable force could only be unstoppable by being able to pass through the immovable.
Were this not the case the existence of both an immovable object and an unstoppable force would be impossible.Last edited by green.tea; 07-07-2012 at 04:12. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?Or alternatively, the unstoppable force and immovable object could both exist, but in such a way that it is impossible that they would ever meet one another.(Original post by green.tea)
hmm. ok.
I guess an object could only be immovable by allowing an unstoppable force to pass through or an unstoppable force could only be unstoppable by being able to pass through the immovable.
Were this not the case the existence of both an immovable object and an unstoppable force would be impossible. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?But then something would be stopping the force meeting the object.(Original post by tazarooni89)
Or alternatively, the unstoppable force and immovable object could both exist, but in such a way that it is impossible that they would ever meet one another. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?Physics doesn't work like that. Just because something has no mass does not mean it has no energy. Take a photon, for example. Life is pretty ****ed if a photon doesn't carry any energy. E = mc^2 is only intended to describe the energy of objects with mass, it does not apply when m = 0.(Original post by Thebestgod)
That would depend on the exact magnitude of both the forces. How do you define unstoppable and Immovable?
Does immovable imply unbreakable? If so, then the force would penetrate the object and pass right through it?
If not, then I don't think they'll cancel each other out because they're not opposite to each other.
Also the object will have a mass. Do forces HAVE a mass themselves? I don't think they do. So if they have no mass, we can say they have no energy too since E=mc^2.
Hmm forces have no energy? I think they CARRY energy. I don't know
To answer your question, my bet would be that the unstoppable force will absorbed by the object and its energy converted into mass. The mass increases the size of the original object.
Forces are indirect quantities. It's not massive, nor does it exist in any sort of wave state - it is simply a thing which causes an object to change in some way. The causes of a force are the complicated bit! So no, forces don't have mass!Last edited by Hype en Ecosse; 07-07-2012 at 04:25. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?Could just be traveling in the wrong direction.(Original post by green.tea)
But then something would be stopping the force meeting the object. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?But then the fact that it was traveling in the wrong direction would stop it from meeting the object.(Original post by green.tea)
Could just be traveling in the wrong direction. -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?So an unstoppable force would have to travel everywhere in order to not be stopped from traveling anywhere?(Original post by green.tea)
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?It'd have to not be stopped from being stopped... What a silly argument.(Original post by green.tea)
So an unstoppable force would have to travel everywhere in order to not be stopped from traveling anywhere? -
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Re: What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?Yeah.(Original post by green.tea)
It'd have to not be stopped from being stopped... What a silly argument.
