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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (9801)3/26/2001 8:35:39 PM
From: TimF   of 82486
 
Since a line, mathematically, has an infinite number of points, and there is always a mid-point between wherever the arrow is and the target which the arrow must get to first, there is no point at which it can stop progressing from where it is to the new mid point, and therefore there is no point at which it can actually get to the target.

A point is infintely small. The arrow is all ready along an infinite number of points on that line as it is released, but it still has a finite length. If I sluff over the paradox its because I think it is no true paradox. Things do not move from one infintely small point and then to the next infintely small point, they move through an infiite number of such points all at once. It is a pardox only within its own parameters and assumptions and these parameters and assumptions are not true in the real world.

Mathematically there is no uncertainty in where the arrow is.

Its location is uncertain. The probability of it being withing a microscopically close distance to where you think it is might approach certainty but is not 100% even if it is 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999+ percent. There is 1 in <some obscenely large number which is much higher then the number of particles in the universe> chance that it is all ready at the target.

Tim
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