In the Irresistible force paradox it asks the following question:
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
This is commonly rephrased with irresistible being replaced with unstoppable.
This question and other paradoxes are really interesting for the things that make them what they are. There cannot be an unstoppable force AND and immovable object. Given the circumstances and condition of said force and said object neither of them can logically exist in the same universe. Semantically speaking those two phrases mean nothing to each other in the same context. It would be like asking god to exist. or for a triangle to have four sides.
This isn't really a paradox, but the 'Chicken or the Egg' scenario of which came first has a few days ago been logically answered by my physics teacher and i truly believe it to be correct. The egg came first because 1) Creationism isn't real so chickens didn't just start existing. or eggs for that matter. 2) Evolution is real. 3) Due to evolution two things that were practically two genes away from being genetically identical to what we now call chickens, had sex and created a chicken egg. Plus you can always say that it doesn't specify which type of egg they are referring to so if it isn't a chicken egg then the question could be which came first: the chicken or the dinosaur egg?
I was going to go on and on about paradoxes but it would be easier, considering my readers, to just go to the list of them. I recommend taking a look at the logic, probability, and physical paradox sections.
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