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Xilmwa
10-26-2008, 06:10 PM
http://persistentillusion.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/brick_wall.jpg

DAMN YOU BRICK WALL!! TURN THE DAMN HTML ON IN UNFATHOMABLE!!!!
LedZap
10-26-2008, 09:47 PM
Those look like serious bricks!
General Septem
10-27-2008, 11:38 AM
I wonder, if we throw a brick wall at a terrorist, will the wall stop moving or will the terrorist move?
Xilmwa
10-27-2008, 04:40 PM
I wonder, if we throw a brick wall at a terrorist, will the wall stop moving or will the terrorist move?

I dunna.

If an irresistible object collides with an unmovable object, what happens?
WhiteRaven
10-31-2008, 11:41 AM
I dunna.

If an irresistible object collides with an unmovable object, what happens?

The infinite becomes limited.
General Septem
11-01-2008, 01:16 PM
The infinite becomes limited.

Nothing infinite can really exist. Infinite only makes sense in terms of limits; if the limit is infinite, then a function grows without bound. An irresistible (i.e., infinite) force would have to have infinite mass or infinite acceleration, and by the nature of existence, anything that exists is necessarily finite.


There are infinite limits that have finite values (e.g., the limit of 1/x as x goes to infinity is 0, which is finite), but that's not really the same as saying "the infinite becomes limited". What it means is that you can make the output arbitrarily close to 0 by choosing values of x sufficiently close to infinity.