The dust line thinneth but never gone.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Could also be related to the Zima paradox: nobody wants to drink it, somebody keeps buying it but it still won’t disappear from the shelves despite taking a decade off from production.

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    It’s also an example of calculus because the amount of dust approaches zero, but is never quite zero

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    What makes Zeno’s paradox a paradox is that, despite the logical requirement that moving objects must cover an infinite number of sub-intervals in order to do so, we do, in fact, observe objects move.

    But we never observe that final bit of dust getting successfully swept up, so in that case the paradox is averted.