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Title text:

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.

Transcript:

[An arrow pointing to the right and a trapezoid are labeled as 'Unstoppable Force' and 'Immovable Object' respectively.]
[The arrow is shown as entering the trapezoid from the left and the part of it in said trapezoid is coloured gray.]
[The arrow is shown as leaving the trapezoid to the right and is coloured black.]
[Caption below the panel:] I don't see why people find this scenario to be tricky.

Source: https://xkcd.com/3084/

explainxkcd for #3084

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No that doesn't make sense. The thing you're alluring at is a classical thought experiment showing contradiction in allmightiness.

P1: God is Almighty, meaning he can do anything

Therefore he must be able to create a stone he can't lift. But then there is something he can't do: Either he can not lift the super stone, or he can not create a super stone that he can't lift.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

lol I am not alluring to anything I am just giving a xkcd twist to this well known paradox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I don't know, heavy things attract other things, so maybe it is alluring ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Easy to resolve that conflict. A creator would by definition be outside the universe since he predated it. However, if he went into the universe, his presence there would be subject to its laws

We can easily say the creator could make an immovable object, within its environment. If the creator went into the environment, he would be subject to its laws, and the front would fall off …. Er, the object would be immovable. However when his being s beyond the environment, creating an immovable object is just part of his plan

[–] RandomVideos 1 points 5 days ago

An omnipotent and omniscient being would have the ability to change words definitions or logic. They cant be stopped with a logical contradiction