I'm not sure if this would qualify as a worldview question but I am going to ask it here anyway. Send your answer to worldview.experiment@gmail.com. I will post any answers I get next week.
Can an unstoppable force and and unmovable object both exist? Why or why not?
Update 7/18/08
Well I only got one response and here it is:
According to the dictionary, "unstoppable" is defined as: that cannot be stopped or surpassed; unbeatable: an unstoppable ball team. Unmovable is defined as: not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills." With that information, I hold the same answer as I did before reading the definitions. This is a fancy way of saying "Could God create a rock so heavy that even He couldn't lift it?" There is nothing greater or more powerful than God. God can not be contained or restricted in any way. He is everywhere and all knowing. So does that make God an unstoppable force? I suppose so, if that is the way you want to look at it. I don't view God that way though. God just is. God said, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' " How powerful God is. He didn't say "I was" or "I will be," just "I am." Those two tiny words transcend time and space. What could be more powerful than that? I digress. Now to the issue of an unmovable object. From a human being standpoint, yes, there are plenty of objects we cannot lift let alone move. This leads me back to God. He created everything with mere words. God can move the mountains and arrange the planets with just His words. Nothing is more powerful than that.
Update 8/15/08
I got another response
yes
3 ways
1. The unstoppable object started at the location of the unmovable
object and continued infinitely into space. Geometrically this would
be similar to a ray. With the theory that the universe is continually
expanding the unstoppable object would never stop and never loop back
around to interact with the unmovable object.
2. Relative view. If the object were large enough (say planetoid
size) a person seeing the object approach the object would appear
unstoppable. To a person located on the object it would appear to be
unstoppable.
3. Relative view. The object were moving slow enough, say a large
fraction of a small measurement per multiple millenniums. One observer
would say that the object is immovable since the movement could not
accurately nor quantifiablly be measured. A second observer would say
that although it can not be measured it is still moving and its
movement could be measure given enough time.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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