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Title text:

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.

Transcript:

[An arrow pointing to the right and a trapezoid are labeled as 'Unstoppable Force' and 'Immovable Object' respectively.]
[The arrow is shown as entering the trapezoid from the left and the part of it in said trapezoid is coloured gray.]
[The arrow is shown as leaving the trapezoid to the right and is coloured black.]
[Caption below the panel:] I don't see why people find this scenario to be tricky.

Source: https://xkcd.com/3084/

explainxkcd for #3084

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (31 children)

so if god creates rock so heavy that it can't lift it, its hand just passes through the rock? makes sense.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

No that doesn't make sense. The thing you're alluring at is a classical thought experiment showing contradiction in allmightiness.

P1: God is Almighty, meaning he can do anything

Therefore he must be able to create a stone he can't lift. But then there is something he can't do: Either he can not lift the super stone, or he can not create a super stone that he can't lift.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

lol I am not alluring to anything I am just giving a xkcd twist to this well known paradox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I don't know, heavy things attract other things, so maybe it is alluring ;)

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