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View submission: What is your favorite paradox?
Nothing is impossible.
If nothing is impossible it’s possible for something to be impossible
Comment by osva_ at 26/06/2020 at 12:40 UTC
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It is impossible for a human to survive in the space. But if you equip it with astro suit, you can survive in space. Hence nothing is impossible (meeting certain criteria) and something is impossible (if you meet the criteria). Right now it's impossible to know what's inside the black hole, just theorize, but who knows in the future?
At least that's my take on your paradox and I think all paradoxes are limited to time, eventually there will be no paradoxes left. I'm assuming we will live as a species long enough for that, especially considering how fast we moved our technology and quality of life over the past few hundred years.
Comment by moslof_flosom at 26/06/2020 at 13:44 UTC
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Would that mean that 'anything is possible' is also a paradox? Since if anything is possible, it would be possible for something to be impossible?
Comment by Belzeturtle at 26/06/2020 at 16:04 UTC
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This is just a falsehood, not a paradox. There's infinitely many impossible things.
Comment by Broiled_Beans at 26/06/2020 at 13:16 UTC
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It's like that thing with god, could it create an object so heavy it itself can't lift it
Comment by Jakeybaby125 at 26/06/2020 at 11:58 UTC
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Vice versa, if nothing is possible, how are we here?