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Single Idea 20457

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox ]

Full Idea

One possible answer is that Zeno is wrong because it is not true that by accumulating an infinite number of things one ends up with an infinite thing.

Gist of Idea

Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing

Source

Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 01)

Book Ref

Rovelli,Carlo: 'Reality is Not What it Seems', ed/tr. Carnell/Segre [Penguin 2016], p.14

A Reaction

I do love it when deep and complex ideas are expressed with perfect simplicity. As long as the simple version is correct.

The 14 ideas from 'Reality is Not What it Seems'

20457 Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing [Rovelli]
20458 The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field [Rovelli]
20466 Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are [Rovelli]
20467 Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events [Rovelli]
20468 Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things [Rovelli]
20465 Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations [Rovelli]
20461 The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics [Rovelli]
20462 Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli]
20463 There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli]
20464 The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli]
20459 Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps [Rovelli]
20460 Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out [Rovelli]
20469 There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know [Rovelli]
20470 Only heat distinguishes past from future [Rovelli]