s this scientifically impossible?, it can “NEVER” hit the ground…can it?

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Is this scientifically impossible?, it can “NEVER” hit the ground…can it?

Take a look at this tower...........
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Gilly


EDIT: Sorry

IT is Eiffel Tower


Now imagine someone at the top of this 1063 foot tower (lets say 1000 to keep it simple) Drops an object right from the top. Could be anything really. The object falls all the way down. However, before hitting the ground, it has to travel distance, So say half way down, 500 feet, from the bottum, it has another 500 feet to go. Ok, 250 feet from the bottum now, and half of that is 125 feet, then, 62.5 feet, 32.25, 15.625, 7.8125, 3.90, 1.95,
And less than a foot - ""0.976"". So, were does it end?, since this object Always has to travel Half way before reaching its final destiny - planet Earth....:(

~Ant
 
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No because it isn't slowing down. It travels 500 feet, then travels another 500 feet. Then hits the ground. If it was alive, it's now dead.
 
I think he's trying to say as it always has to fall half of the distance then it should always be half away from the destination which is a bizarre thought.

You have to take into account that the decent is not always at the same speed.

So it may take 10 seconds to fall 500 feet and then a further 5 to fall to the bottom.

Who cares anyway!



M.
 
Your logic is flawed. You can't just halve something forever, you will never reach zero. It hits when it has travelled 1000 feet, no more, no less.
 
It's all in the way you phrase it, the distance will become exponentially smaller and eventually inconsequential ie half of nothing is still nothing.

Edit: See the above post for a better explanation.
 
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