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    Author: * antoninus Lucretius - 2 Posts on this thread out of 654 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Oct 10, 2002 - 09:24

    I don't know if it really belongs here but there is this theory about Achilles shooting an arrow at a target. The arrow covers half the distance, then half of the second half, then half of that again, and so on. And there is always another half. Theoretically, the arrow never reaches the target. Yet it does. Apparently, halves stop, at some point.
    What is wrong, Language? Our comprehension of physics? Both?


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