- Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:24 am
#36311
In a paradox; something is erased completely from existence. So, instead of trying to answer who shot the scientist, anyone who had the answer in there head would have said something along the lines of this: "Wrong question, the solution would be "The scientist never existed long enough to kill, or be killed. Furthermore, he no longer exists." (Oddly enough, if paradox's like such could happen, there would be no dead body on the floor where he died).
^ Is the best guess on the face of this earth.
in addition: The english language doesn't really come into play aside from using it to explain things, but our variables are manmade and for that reason do not have anything to do with paradox's. I could say "He shot himself, but he didn't shoot himself," and it'd still be making perfect sense because -sense- it self is manmade. Also, here's half of where the original paradoxical idea came from.
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/stephen ... radox.html
(Don't go there if hard thinking makes your brain hurt)
(watch all the other video's in the related section if hard thinking is your passion)
However, I still owe smith 500 credits, because what he did was clever. The only better thing I could have thought of saying would be "What scientist?" ^.^
Beh42 wrote:However, being dead before the gun was assembled, the gun was never assembled. As you heard, the scientist shot the scientist with the gun that didn't exist; if you'd all like the honest answer I can just post it. However Beh, I don't blame you for not understanding paradoxical encounters when you see them, unlike myself the only immortal here next to Intelli! (Kidding, no one can answer it 100% correctly).Cannabin0l wrote:
No, the scientist was dead before he shot the scientist, therefore he could not shoot the scientist.
According to English grammar, the scientist shoot the scientist.
The antecendent to 'he' is 'the scientist'.
In a paradox; something is erased completely from existence. So, instead of trying to answer who shot the scientist, anyone who had the answer in there head would have said something along the lines of this: "Wrong question, the solution would be "The scientist never existed long enough to kill, or be killed. Furthermore, he no longer exists." (Oddly enough, if paradox's like such could happen, there would be no dead body on the floor where he died).
^ Is the best guess on the face of this earth.
in addition: The english language doesn't really come into play aside from using it to explain things, but our variables are manmade and for that reason do not have anything to do with paradox's. I could say "He shot himself, but he didn't shoot himself," and it'd still be making perfect sense because -sense- it self is manmade. Also, here's half of where the original paradoxical idea came from.
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/stephen ... radox.html
(Don't go there if hard thinking makes your brain hurt)
(watch all the other video's in the related section if hard thinking is your passion)
However, I still owe smith 500 credits, because what he did was clever. The only better thing I could have thought of saying would be "What scientist?" ^.^
Last edited by Cannabin0l on Sun Oct 09, 2011 2:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
