[Help] Stepping walk. Updates to this post /post/213157-stepping-walk Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:42:48 +0100 Reply from Nightowl /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4443719 [quote Bogdan]It only travels half of a distance if it makes it the full distance.

By saying it has to go half of half of half, etc. then that is no movement, but the thing is, the ball does make it and it has travelled all those halves to get where it is going because it is only half if it makes it the full way.

With no movement, there is no distance. With no distance, movement becomes irrelevant making this into a metaphysical discussion about concepts that don’t really matter.[/quote]

Good answer!

]]> Nightowl Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:47:18 +0100 Reply from Bogdan (Gone) /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4441666 It only travels half of a distance if it makes it the full distance.

By saying it has to go half of half of half, etc. then that is no movement, but the thing is, the ball does make it and it has travelled all those halves to get where it is going because it is only half if it makes it the full way.

With no movement, there is no distance. With no distance, movement becomes irrelevant making this into a metaphysical discussion about concepts that don’t really matter.

]]> Bogdan (Gone) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:02:11 +0100 Reply from Nightowl /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4441243 [quote mills]these are just terms of measurement. realistically, nobody is going to walk in 1/8 of a foot increments. or 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, and so on and so forth. it is merely impossible to put those types of numbers into a single step.[/quote]

But everybody does have to go half way before they go all the way! Thats what makes this so trippy!

Think about it, your not “walking in increments”.

Maybe a better analogy would be…

To throw a ball from the pitchers mound to home plate, after you threw the ball it doesn’t just teleport from point A to point B. First it has to travel half of the distance (for if it NEVER travels half of ANY distance, it didnt move at all!) before it reaches its goal. But to first travel it has to FIRST travel half of a half! ect. ect.

Understand?

]]> Nightowl Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:51:59 +0100 Reply from Good ole boy /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4434492 these are just terms of measurement. realistically, nobody is going to walk in 1/8 of a foot increments. or 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, and so on and so forth. it is merely impossible to put those types of numbers into a single step.

]]> Good ole boy Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:04:58 +0100 Reply from Kuvri (yodaluv12) /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4431017 Yeah like you can’t run a marathon because you’d have to pass the halfway point, but to get there, you’d need the quarter-way point. It’s a great theory that just doesn’t work in real life.

]]> Kuvri (yodaluv12) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:47:03 +0100 Reply from Xeno Dragon /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430980 [quote Nightowl][quote Xeno Dragon]Well, yeah. I happen to disagree with it, though. Like I said, the average human walks further than a single foot with each step. This might make sense for a millipede, but logically, it’s just a mathematical principal made to look like philosophy.[/quote]

Yea :p I know its inapplicable in the real world (We all know its possible to walk a foot if you wanted). I just wanted to see what kind of responses I would get:3[/quote]

I’m not dissing you or anyone who believes it, mind you. I, personally, dislike it because it’s poorly expressed in my opinion. I’ve hated it ever since I learned it in my college philosophy class.

]]> Xeno Dragon Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:41:16 +0100 Reply from Nightowl /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430973 [quote Xeno Dragon]Well, yeah. I happen to disagree with it, though. Like I said, the average human walks further than a single foot with each step. This might make sense for a millipede, but logically, it’s just a mathematical principal made to look like philosophy.[/quote]

Yea :p I know its inapplicable in the real world (We all know its possible to walk a foot if you wanted). I just wanted to see what kind of responses I would get:3

]]> Nightowl Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:39:42 +0100 Reply from Xeno Dragon /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430960 Well, yeah. I happen to disagree with it, though. Like I said, the average human walks further than a single foot with each step. This might make sense for a millipede, but logically, it’s just a mathematical principal made to look like philosophy.

]]> Xeno Dragon Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:36:04 +0100 Reply from Kuvri (yodaluv12) /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430944 Hahaha! Xeno responded to Zeno’s Paradox :)

]]> Kuvri (yodaluv12) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:33:23 +0100 Reply from Xeno Dragon /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430937 Well… except that the average human stride is between 2 1/2 feet-3 feet. Better to start with miles and work your way back.

]]> Xeno Dragon Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:32:40 +0100 Reply from Bogdan (Gone) /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430895 It is measured by the start to the end. In one footstep, you dont walk the smaller distances until the larger distance has been completed because you still have the choice to take your foot back and not walk at all.

]]> Bogdan (Gone) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:26:34 +0100 Reply from Kuvri (yodaluv12) /post/213157-stepping-walk#reply-4430894 ahh.. the zeno paradox.

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