A list of word Paradoxs'

Zero5 · 27 Apr 2006 at 09:21

I know that probably isnt the right use of that apostrophe but meh.

On to the thread...

I'm trying to find word paradoxs' to confudle people with. The only one I've come across is "the liars paradox" which goes like this,

I'm lying, even now.

I've gotten two confused looks from two of my stupider friends but I need better ones to get the smarter ones so thats where you guys n' gals come in. Can you think of any others you've heard or made up?

*Edit* Actually, any paradox you can think of would be sound, I don't know why but I love thinking about them too much.

Zero5 · 27 Apr 2006 at 09:29

Steve said:
The classic

If God is omnipotent, could he create a rock that he wouldn't be able to lift?

OOO thats a good one. Keep them coming.

Zero5 · 27 Apr 2006 at 09:30

JCBeastie said:
Paradox's (Apostrophe illustrates that an "e" is missing)

Personally I'm a temporal (time travel) paradox kinda guy, so here goes:

You travel backwards through time, approximately two generations and you kill your grandmother.

This prevents the birth of your mother and concordantly your birth also.

If you were never born, then how could you have killed your grandmother?

Also the creation paradox:

You travel back in time and visit Albert Einstein. You tell him all about his theories and the breakthrough he made with E=MC2.

Eventually he tells the world what he has discovered, although he never actually developed the theory himself.

So, who infact discovered E=MC2?

Hehe...

Woah! That Einstein one is ace.

Zero5 · 27 Apr 2006 at 10:18

-Laser- said:
the explanation is correct, but you can't just use it whenever you like to leave lett'rs out of w'rds! ! ! ! ! better than the usage in the OP though i guess. dirtydog is right, it is "paradoxes"

sorry

Anyway, these are brilliant.

The one about fathering your parents is a little dodgy but if you get it in your mind that you haven't been born so technically your not "in the family yet" then your fine.

Having said that its still rather a nasty concept.

Zero5 · 27 Apr 2006 at 10:38

Ive heard of the Grandfather one, as I've seen the "roswell that ends well" episode of futurama. Great episode that.

The Back to the future ones I've only really heard of in the films and I didnt really put as much thought as i should have into the paradox there. Only enough to understand the concept of multiple universes and fixing them. Which is really the problem I find with the Grandfather Paradox. If you go back and cause those problems using BTTF logic you're basicaly creating another universe and we just happened to follow the one where Fry killed his grandfather.

The way I see it is that the universes split (into how many arcs I don't know as its not real

) as soon as time travel occured so if we had followed the one where they didn't go back it wouldn't have been a very interesting episode. So somewhere out there in Futurama land there is another univers where they didnt travel back and fry didnt lose the delta wave thing by being his own grandfather and the earth got taken over by the brains.

The whole multiple universe thing is an incredible concept. I like to think that every decision made creates a new universe where the different things play out. I think I'm getting ahead of myself though here and I'm fairly sure this post makes no sense whatsoever, but of course going by my logic theres a "universe" out there where I never did this thread