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ReplyTo a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC.

ALChemy27 Dec 2005

No, Zeno's not so annoying as he is delusional. His great folly is that he assumed mathematics and science weren't governed by the same faulty senses. Mathematics is just abstract symbolism for things we percieve as consistant. Define zero without using mathematics. It's nothing, so it can't exist and if it doesn't exist why does it appear in mathematics? Yet wothout it computers won't operate. The tape measure is governed by mathematics and so is limited by the limitations of mathematics. Take a computer that is programmed to measure something down to the infinate fraction and have it measure something that is exactly a yard long and the computer will never finish measuring. Zeno himself is his greatest contradiction. There is no logic beyond our senses that we know of.