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Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

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Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

S2021E9

Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

  • Air date:2021-03-23
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“A moving arrow is at rest.” This is obviously a nonsensical contradiction. But Zeno, a Greek philosopher famous for his metaphysical trolling, devised a paradox whose conclusion is just this. Here’s how it goes: if you look at an arrow flying through the air at any instantaneous snapshot in time, the arrow doesn’t travel any distance. If time is composed of an infinite number of these snapshots, and the arrow doesn’t move in any of them, then the arrow is at rest during the entirety of its flight. The moving arrow is at rest.

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Matthew O’Dowd

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