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| Mar 28, 2015 at 15:31 | history | closed |
ACuriousMind♦ Kyle Kanos user10851 John Rennie Danu |
Duplicate of Infinite series of derivatives of position when starting from rest | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 14:09 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 13:36 | answer | added | Rainer Blome | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 4:23 | comment | added | mmesser314 | @DavidHammen - You have it backwards. Zeno walked out of the room too. He did not mathematically prove that reality was impossible. He showed that there was a problem with mathematics. But you are right. The Greeks sometimes took math-heresey way too seriously. Numbers were thought of as the ratio of integers. The man who discovered that no integers yield $\sqrt{2}$ was put to death. | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 0:46 | comment | added | Volker Siegel | @MasonWheeler Hmm... meta-heresy... nice :) | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 0:46 | comment | added | David Hammen | @MasonWheeler - I agree with you (and disagree with mmesser314). Zeno's paradox was disproved at the moment it was introduced when smarter Greek philosophers than Zeno stood up and walked out of the room. | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 20:45 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | So we were left with a really dumb philosophy that contradicts all of observed reality, so as to avoid contradicting a really dumb philosopher whose work managed to hold back science for centuries. (It's been said that every breakthrough in the fundamentals of science had to first overcome something Aristotle got wrong!) And today, even after we can resolve Zeno's paradox by an appeal to infinity and the limit of a series, we even know that an atomist "resolution" to physical dimensions is real too: we call it the Planck length! | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 20:43 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @mmesser314: I respectfully disagree. Zeno's paradox is most definitely a dumb question. The ancient Greeks may not have had a proper concept of infinity or of zero, but they did have atomism, the philosophical concept that at some microscopic level, there is a "resolution" (to borrow a modern computer term) to physical dimensions. It was known from the beginning that atomism provides a handy resolution to Zeno's paradox, but atomism was rejected because it contradicted Aristotle's philosophies, which was essentially math-heresy. (And heresy heresy too, once the Church accepted Aristotle.) | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 12:58 | comment | added | mmesser314 | Zeno's paradox is not a dumb question. The ancient world had some brilliant mathematicians, but they did not understand infinity. This and a few other issues held back mathematics for more than 2000 years. Numbers generated intractable paradoxes. Geometry could be made rigorous. So math was geometry. Archimedes essentially discovered calculus, but did not consider his work a proof. In modern times, Newton invented calculus but it took another century to make the math rigorous. | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 10:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/580672705915142144 | ||
| Mar 25, 2015 at 7:34 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Possible duplicate: physics.stackexchange.com/q/111251/2451 | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 7:01 | answer | added | Photon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 6:24 | answer | added | Mark Eichenlaub | timeline score: 27 | |
| Mar 25, 2015 at 6:00 | history | asked | under_the_sea_salad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |