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Season 2021 · Episode 9 of 35 Aired Mar 23, 2021

Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

Tue, Mar 23, 2021
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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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Tue, Mar 23, 2021

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S2021 · E9

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