(August 26, 2015 at 8:32 pm)dyresand Wrote: Not to mention there is the problem with teleportation anyways. The key problem is you would die and get assembled on the other end of where you wanted to go.
One may not be much better off in a wormhole.
As this does not coincide with my particular world, I had never really looked hard at continuity vs. reality. Re-reading Zeno's paradoxes, I see some validity to them.
Technically, there are an infinite number of points between point A and point B. Regardless of how little time it takes to pass a point, one could never pass an infinite number of points.
However, we can get from A to B, so basically, it just reinforces my worldview in my head.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy