The Paradox is in the description.
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[2012-01-28 03:03:56] tony0977 - After watching this ...
After watching this paradoxes don't seem like a mystery any more! :-)
[2011-11-23 04:55:20] dcproof1 - Suppose there is ...Suppose there is man living in the village who is the barber. Suppose further that there exists a binary relation 'shaves' defined on the set of all men in that village such that the barber 'shaves' those and only those men in the village who do not shave themselves. You can resolve the resulting paradox by showing that no such relation can exist. See my video, "The Barber Paradox, A Mathematical Analysis."
[2011-09-13 02:38:59] suzywao - I'm pretty sure ...I'm pretty sure I'm examining the situation. "If you kill your grandfather time would simply go on in a different reality where you were never born." Thus I never existed to kill my grandfather, and he lives. Therefore I am born. Therefore I kill my grandfather, therefore I do not exist to kill him. He lives. And so on.
[2011-09-05 18:45:21] KombatGod - The paradox you're ...The paradox you're thinking is: "if a person prevents his own birth, then wouldn't be able to prevent his own birth", right? The problem is that you're examinating the description, not the situation! You have to imagine what it would would work like: time flows. If you kill your grandfather time would simply go on in a different reality where you were never born.
[2011-09-05 18:20:12] KombatGod - Vin Diesel? Where ...Vin Diesel? Where is Vin Diesel? I only see Bruce Willis there!
[2011-08-14 16:27:09] EpicPhudge - wow i didnt know ...wow i didnt know vin diesel was so smart
[2011-08-13 20:46:06] rummyisme - haha i like the ...haha i like the vid its funny and makes sense
[2010-03-28 23:07:20] AlecEmpire - A paradox is just a ...A paradox is just a subjective description created inside the box of thinking - nothing more.
[2010-02-10 15:44:49] wopaah - If time travelling ...If time travelling were possible, you still wouldn't have a paradox. Suppose a man were born today. In 2030 he goes back in time, kills grandfather in the year 1960. Thus, he will not be born in the year 2010. The problem here is our concept of time. We see it as if 1960 lies before 2010, while actually for this man there is a 1960 that existed before his birth, then 2010, 2030 and afterwards a different time that is CALLED 1960. This man was born 20 years before this different 1960.
[2009-08-26 15:43:10] OurCurlyBen - Faster in relation ...Faster in relation to what? Actually since I asked the question I found an answer, but yours isn't it.
[2009-08-03 17:14:26] anoyingfly - time slows down for ...time slows down for the one traveling faster. the faster you go, the slower time moves.
[2009-06-25 13:58:52] suzywao - Any paradox could ...Any paradox could be explained away by the justification of "it's the way of nature and we would have to adjust our understanding of it accordingly." My example is a paradox not because of the description, but because the man would destroy himself and therefore would not have existed to destroy himself. So.. if he's alive, he's dead, and if he's dead, he's alive. Same with your particle analogy. If the particles destroy themselves, they're gone, and if they don't, they destroy themselves.
[2009-06-24 14:29:02] CousinoMacul - Fine. Assuming ...Fine. Assuming that such a situation could actually exist, where's the paradox? (hint: the description) Suppose that physicists discovered particles that could go back in time and annihilate themselves before they existed. How would that be "physically paradoxical"? Wouldn't it just be the way of nature and we would have to adjust our understanding and explanations of nature accordingly? And wouldn't the same apply to the "grandfather paradox"?
[2009-06-24 03:53:26] suzywao - So... no brilliant ...So... no brilliant comeback?
[2009-06-16 08:44:49] suzywao - A man goes back in ...A man goes back in time and kills his grandfather.
[2009-05-05 18:27:12] KrazyAnub1s - Pretty deep ...Pretty deep thinking about the barber I speak another language and I have learned 4 other languages (including english) All languages have different ending for the word "shave" wheres english doesn't. Thats why english is a really easy language to learn. Some languages have so much grammer & rules that it's hard to memorize at times.
[2009-04-20 16:52:20] CousinoMacul - I only used this ...I only used this one type of paradox as an illustration, but all paradoxes are in the description. The concept of "paradox" is something that can only apply to descriptions. There are no paradoxes in the "real world". The paradoxes only arise in describing the "paradoxical situation". My example was to show that even when you "solve a paradox" the original situation remains unchanged. I challenge you to find a paradox that is somehow independent of its description.
[2009-04-20 16:25:41] frazzzer8888 - This particular ...This particular paradox is due to the description but not all paradoxes are. Some are absolutely independent. This only applies to one type of paradox.
[2009-04-14 05:29:41] NameFreedom - This video gives ...This video gives me such a feeling of unity.
[2009-04-01 14:39:26] CousinoMacul - Thanks!Thanks!
[2009-03-29 00:46:31] Jaysnipes - Great video too! 5 ...Great video too! 5/5 I like how you ended the video too.
[2009-03-29 00:36:22] Jaysnipes - I worship paradox ...I worship paradox and I feel paradox leads to enlightenment and knowledgable truth's or facts.
[2009-03-03 00:03:50] elseandortheother - LIKE A LAST WILL ...LIKE A LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT with a BAnk LIEN?
[2009-01-24 18:57:12] CousinoMacul - In everyone of you ...In everyone of you examples, the paradox (if any) is found in the description. Take your first example (a variation on the classic "liar's paradox"); the claim is itself a description of itself and so the paradox could not reside anywhere else BUT in the description.
[2009-01-24 04:34:59] ShadoManiac - A) Statement B is ...A) Statement B is true B) Statement A is false This sentence contains 2 errers Will you answer "No" to this question? Can God make a rock he can't carry?
[2008-12-11 13:41:15] CousinoMacul - Mathematics is a ...Mathematics is a descriptive language that we use to model reality. There are plenty of paradoxes in mathematics: besides Russell's, there's a bijection between any two continuous subsets (including the entire set) of the real numbers, and a statement which is the equivalent of "the liar's paradox" exists in every system strong enough to describe itself (from Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems). But the paradoxes are all still in the descriptions (I hope that was a satisfying reply).
[2008-12-11 10:18:36] Rsgamby671 - What about the ...What about the Russell's Paradox being applied to mathematics? Wouldn't this be more than a description? (X:X=all real number) Just wondering...
[2008-10-11 08:30:24] OurCurlyBen - I can't wrap my ...I can't wrap my head around this. Could you maybe make a video explaining it a little better? It seems that the twin A who takes a super-fast journey will age less than the twin B who stays at home. But in the relativity we can consider B to be traveling in relation to A in which case the twin B will age less. If A accelerates in respect to B than B accelerates in relation to A. Right? So does time slows down for both? For neither? Who will be older? What will they experience? I don't get it.
[2008-10-11 00:08:26] CousinoMacul - The Twin Paradox ...The Twin Paradox happens because time is relative. The paradox arises because it is usually described using a classical framework for time, thus contradicting our expectations. But it is a fact of reality. If you were to describe the scenario using a Relativistic framework for time, the paradox would disappear.
[2008-10-09 18:05:21] OurCurlyBen - I know this is a ...I know this is a little late reply but what about "the twin paradox" and others like it that we encounter in physics?
[2008-09-08 16:50:58] Censeo - Yes, it is in the ...Yes, it is in the description. Though all paradoxes aren't making this mistake of false equivalence. One thing is certain though. A paradox is never taking place in actuality, because all things we experience or imagine can be described without using any form of paradox. We can i.e never imagine a barber who shave himself while at the same time doesn't shave himself. This barber lacks physical appearance. The action is unimaginable, meaning we describe nothing at all really.
[2008-08-17 20:35:18] socialpersonality - this content puts ...this content puts me in a hot air balloon! i disagree but not sure what about here. i'm going to play with it though.
[2008-08-12 20:38:41] bezvezeceda - I could agree that ...I could agree that it is a lack of description, not description itself.
[2008-07-28 09:22:33] strav12 - Duh! Sorry! I have ...Duh! Sorry! I have a different def of paradox and was being dumb. OK 'The description need not be linguistic'. Any representation of 'reality' is just a representation whatever the media. My point was whether paradox exists only as a representation (lang, pic, or other) or if it can refer to an entity outside of the representation. Is your definition just a representation, or does paradox actually exist outside your definition? Building Escher models proves paradox exists?