i think I've made that game engine before.
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Maybe the universe will crash due to division by zero, floating-point error, integer overflow and segmentation fault, all of them occurring simultaneously. The objects will experience infinite velocity and infinite forces, there will be rounding errors, the system will run out of RAM and storage space. The universal CPU will max out all threads, and run out of cooling capacity. The hardware catches fire, the entire universe immediately collapses into a singularity, resulting in a new big bang as the system reboots. Oh, and the log files are corrupted, so good luck troubleshooting that one.
Division by zero is just zero.
Just think about it. You have 4 slices of pie and 0 people to eat any.
How much pie did each of those no people eat. Clearly the answer is just 0.
Education took us for absolute fools.
It’s just as true a statement to say each of those 0 people at a billion slices of pie.
However, with these types of word problems, there’s usually the implication that the pie is now gone. There’s kind of a problem figuring out where the pie went when nobody ate any pie.
This one is a bit counterintuitive. My maths teacher explained it like this. Take a look at this graph. If you approach zero from the positive side, it looks like the line goes to infinity. If you approach zero from the negative side, it appears to go to negative infinity instead.
Is it both, is it zero, is it all the values? The canonical answer is “undefined”. The value of y at x=0 doesn’t have a meaningful answer.
A popup will appear asking you to buy the "Extended Physics" DLC
First billion years free. After that it’s 17.99 per millennia.
What currency?
I doubt the universe accepts Euro or whatever.
It's just 17.99. Take it or leave it.
That's actually how black holes are made
Noooooo! You're violating my binary thinking! Either A or B has to win!
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Dammit I should have posted my exact same solution back when I thought of it for the first time, but I was lazy so eh my fuck up
Pretty sure none of these exist so idk why it bothered any1 in the first place.
if people only bothered to think about things that exist (especially things that they think exist) we would probably go the way of the dodo. funnily enough that would prevent the dodos from going that way but whatever.
I highly recommend watching the Vsauce video on supertasks—it's a great video as expected from Vsauce but also ends on a great note about people and their tendency to think about things like this.
You clearly haven't met my mother.
Is the an unstoppable force or an immovable object or a little bit of both?
Both.
Neutrinos are pretty close to an unstoppable force: they can pass right through the earth without being stopped.
I believe this is an expectation of dark matter, to being even closer to an unstoppable force. Perhaps a reason we haven’t found it yet would a because we don’t have a detector that can stop it
There are some pretty close physical analogs that are fun to think about. You cant move a black hole by exerting physical force on it in the normal way so practically infinite gravity wells are like a immovable "object", though if you're sufficently nerdy enough you can cook some fun ways to harness its gravitational rotation into a kind of engine, or throw another black hole at it to create a big explosion and some gravitational waves which are like a kind of unstoppable force moving at the speed of light.
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You can attract a black hole using gravity tho
These kinds of contradicitons exist in man made structures, such as laws, rules and regulations. In situations like that, a judge has to pick which rule to follow and which one to ignore. The first time that happens, it becomes the standard solution (precedent) for those kinds of problems.
Facepalm Man i'm dumb, this is a great answer to that thought experiment.
The expression as I heard included "an irresistible force."
"And irresistible is what I am, baby!"