1.Both will disintegrate thereby fulfilling both
conditions
2.Yes, since eternal life means eternal vitality not
invincibility
3.Yes, I do not accept.
4.Split time-line
5. Ans in kelvins (as many ppl stated).
6.NO!
7.You will not see the beam *shoot out* but at least glow inside
the casing.
8.He cannot pickup and is instantaneously capable of picking
up.
Originally posted by Rephidim:
Now, i issue you a challenge.
1. I have an infinite number of chairs, each with one person on it.
Now, I have an infinite number of customers coming who wants to sit
on the chairs. How do I seat all my customers?
2. Very possible in the future, you die. Your grandparents are
alive then because of advances in cloning and bring you back
through cloning. But one day you meet your grandchildren and they
tell you they also brought you back through cloning. Then you meet
your clone. Which one is you?
3. I have an ordinary light switch connected to a light. When the
switch is closed, the light is on. When the switch is open, the
light is off. At two minutes to noon, the light is on. At one
minute to noon I flip the switch, turning the light off. At half a
minute to noon I flip it again, turning the light on. At a quarter
of a minute before noon I flip it again, turning the light off. I
continue in this way, cutting the time between flippings of the
switch in half each time. Now this will be an infinite series of
flips. The switch flippings will occur closer and closer to noon,
but will all be completed before noon. Will the switch be on or off
at noon?
4. One day the professor came into the class and announced, "Next
week I will give you a surprise test. It will be a surprise,
because you won't be able to figure out on which day it will occur
until the class meets on the day of the test. It could happen on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, but I won't tell
you which day." The class were clever. They reasoned as follows:
"She can't give the test on Friday, because then it wouldn't be a
surprise; we'd know after class on Thursday that the test hadn't
yet occurred, and hence we'd figure out that it would have to be on
Friday. So we know the test can't be on Friday. But then it can't
be on Thursday either, because if it were, we would know after
class on Wednesday that it would have to be on Thursday, since it
wouldn't have happened yet, and we have already shown that it can't
be on Friday." Reasoning in this manner, the students concluded
that the test could not occur on Wednesday either, nor on Tuesday,
nor on Monday. Having concluded that a surprise test was
impossible, the students didn't study. They were very disappointed
and very surprised on Wednesday when they got a test. Where did the
students' reasoning go wrong?
1. Sit on the person's lap. Or ask them to share it. Criteria
not restricted.
2a. Both are clones. The real me is dead. I'm the first clone
brought back to life by grandparents
2b. "Very possible in the future, you die" -> Possible death,
means I might not be dead so I'm still me.
3.Definitely not off. If there is an ans: It is either open or
closed. Not off/on
4.I must admit I'm quite stumped by this qn. But going by logic the
reasoning made by the students proves that all days are surprises.
I guess the reasoning fails because they reasoned from the
back.
Proper reasoning:
Forward : Whereby
Monday (No test) -> Tue - Friday Surprise
By going backwards like the students do:
They assumed that Monday-Thur ALREADY have no
tests therefore friday definitely no surprises.
And then they work backwards therefore proving their reasoning is
wrong. Since they have ALREADY assumed that mon-thur no
tests.
I might be wrong anyway....
