Zeno (2)

(circa 490-430 BCE) Zeno of Elea; a Greek philosopher who is most famous for what is commonly known as Zeno’s Paradox.

Zeno’s Paradox has been explained by sociologists such as Robert Anton Wilson, mathematicians such as Rudy Rucker, and even characters in the TV series, Star Trek; Zeno’s Paradox can be stated formally as: the relation of the Discrete to the Continuous and requiring the concept of Limit for its satisfactory explanation; as a practical example: if you were ten feet away from a wall and you move halfway towards it and then stop and then move halfway towards it again and then stop and then move halfway towards it again and then stop and on and on in this fashion, you will never reach the wall because you will always have another half the distance to traverse; the distance to the wall is clearly Finite but you have made it Infinite simply by your method of measurement.