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Zeno's paradox also conveniently ignores that the time chunks are getting smaller alongside the distance chunks.

An item going at 1m/s will cover half a meter in half a second, and still have half a meter to go. Then after another quarter of a meter, it still has a quarter of a meter to go... but now only a quarter of a second has passed. If you keep on making the time units smaller, then of course it will 'never arrive'. It's not much of a paradox if you take a time-based characteristic and then don't give it enough time to occur :)



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