Buddha Boy in Zeno's Paradox

Buddha Boy learns a rockin' lesson according to Zeno's Paradox.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• comedy
• art
• allison
• foust
• zeno
• paradox

[Zuzubar]

The reason this is a paradox is the rock has to complete an INFINITE amount of steps in order to hit the guy.

[allifoust]

LOL! yeah, wtf do i know. i created this animation as an assignment for a motion graphics class. Just thought the whole paradox thing made for an interesting subject. wasn't try to solve anything. i'm too right brained for that.

[Paulmark18]

Thank you for this great video. Has someone finally properly explained this?! I think I need to prove Schrodinger's Cat wrong now as well, just need to find some uranium and I'm all set...

-Paul (& Andrea)

[allifoust]

LOL! Good luck with Schrodinger's Cat...Please let me know what you come up with:) I'm really glad you liked my video. Thanks. I went back and watched your video again..I got a kick out of it, especially Paul Anka(Great name). Best, Allison.

[KotzCo]

There are countless responses to "disprove" zeno's paradoxes, pedantic calculus and long algorithms. laughable - ALL OF THEM, obviously miss the point. there is no refuting zeno or parmenides, or for that matter buddha, which are all the same thing when you understand them. Today we call it quantum mechanics. In 600-450 bc it was called common sense.

[floyd316]

@albpeter the actual explanation for Xeno's paradox is through the definition of the plank length. Recently it has been shown that you cannot infinitely divide space; there is a minimum length that can be achieved before you can no longer break it down any further. This distance is incredibly small - about 10^-43 metres, but it solves the question. There is NOT an infinite number of points to pass, just an incredibly large number.

[floyd316]

@FlamingPhoenix1999 it will total one. this is covered in high school math curriculum

[floyd316]

@coolguy4488 This is totally correct, its one of the first things that you learn to calculate in high school math ( This was covered in my grade 12 math class as well as my calculus course). As for the pi example, you must be confused. If an infinite series equals a finite sum, why would pi be infinite? pi is an infinite series of numbers equalling a finite number; just like the idea of 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/16.....= 1

[coolguy4488]

WAIT this is completely wrong....You said that half plus and eight plus a sixteenth...will eventually equal one. It will not equal one since you are adding infinitely smaller values.

If what you said is true, then pi would equal infinitity since it has infinite digits and place values. Pi would be infinite since you would be adding 3+0.1+0.04+0.001...Even though youre adding infinite amount of values, the values are infinitely small

[mi9worm]

0:39 lol

[AnimalsRightToDance]

i didnt understand this! shit why am i always so slow in maths...

[albpeter]

For it to equal 1 you have to finish infinity which by definition is impossible.... therefore this video is not solving zeno's paradox at all

[chuckpcr]

Good funny video.

[formless777]

This is a nice way of introducing students to calculus, am I right ?