Fact Reveal

Back in 5th century B.C. a renowned philosopher, Zeno of Elia, attacked the commonly held belief that motion is real. He presented several arguments known as Zeno’s paradoxes of motion. In one of his paradoxes, he stated example of a rabbit and turtle competing in a race. The turtle is given a head start of 10 m. For the rabbit to overtake the turtle, the rabbit must reach the turtle first. Suppose that the rabbit runs at speed of 10m/s and the turtle moves at speed of 1 m/s. The rabbit is supposed to reach the 10 m mark in 1 second; however, by that time of 1 second the turtle will also have moved a distance of 1 m (distance = speed x time = 1 m/s x 1s). Now the rabbit has 1 m more to travel which it will cover in 1/10 seconds (time = distance/speed = 1 m / 10 m/s = 1/10 seconds). But, in this time of 1/10 seconds the turtle will have moved a further distance of 1/100 m (distance = speed x time = 1 m/s x 1/100 s = 1/100 m). Again, this distance of 1/100 m will be covered by the rabbit in 1/1000 seconds (time = distance / speed = 0.01 m / 10 m/s = 1/1000 seconds). But again, the turtle will move a distance of 1/1000 m forward in this time. Hence, every time the rabbit tries to reach the turtle, the turtle moves a certain distance forward and therefore, it will take infinite number of steps for the rabbit to reach the turtle.

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