biblewtf asked:
Is there a shortest distance? If not, isn't it conceivable that two things could continuously divide the distance between them by two for all eternity, and never touch each other? If it is, as I move my fingers together, how the hell do they actually touch?
- Is there a shortest distance? Yes. The distance from the base of your peni… Never mind. (No.)
- Isn’t it conceivable that two things could continuously divide the distance between them by two for all eternity, and never touch each other? Clearly not. This is what you meant to find on Wikipedia instead of asking me: Zeno’s Paradoxes. That article is pretty deep (and awesome), so here’s a simpler explanation that you can live your life by:
As the distance between halves decreases, the time required to cross those distances also decreases. In Calculus II you learn that infinite series can be added together to yield a finite solution. That’s what happens here. While the time required to go from point to point becomes infinitely small, the sum of those time increments does not become infinitely large. - As I move my fingers together, how the hell do they actually touch? According to this citation worthy page, they don’t touch (but not because of the reason you were asking about).
