From what I understand, "the racing paradox" concludes that time cannot be composed of infinitely divisible chunks but rather of indivisible pieces. "The arrow paradox" clearly has a problem with the chunk-reality of time but I don't understand how infinitely divisible time intervals resolve the apparent paradox. I then came across this video:
I don't understand her point that "the flight is not composed of a series of dimensionless moments." How does this make the arrow move? Is her argument correct, is there someone else who explained the paradox better? (I'm reading 'Early Greek Philosophy' by Barnes btw, that's where I came upon the problem and decided to spend more time on it.)
Instants are not parts of time, for time is not made up of instants any more than a magnitude is made of points.
Andrew Clark
don't bother, his paradoxes add nothing new and are just exercises in autistic semantics
Logan Edwards
No, the racing paradox is simply an illusion. If you keep the frames of time equal, the race is finished easily. It only seems endless, because you are only adding half of the time that you were adding before.
The arrow paradox is another kind of illusion. He has given the definition of movement as something that requires time, and then asks you to consider it without any change in time.
Zeno's paradoxes are primarily mind-traps (like finger traps), if they seem not to budge, it's because you're pulling in the wrong direction.
Instants are part of time, and we can measure them with calculus.
Anthony Perry
I can tell that you've skipped your Zeno lecture
Joseph Gomez
His paradoxes were good at pointing out the flaws in our time-space models, but we have relativity now.
Kevin Jackson
>we can measure them with calculus. WojackWithTinyBrain.jpeg
Levi Garcia
But that then leads to the argument that time and space are quantized?
How does relativity explain these paradoxes? Special and general relativity do literally nothing to resolve both paradoxes if you don't quantize space-time, something which is still trying to find its place in modern physics.
