The Paradox Thread - General

Name a paradox! What would happen if Pinocchio said, "my nose will grow longer right now"? Answer: The world would implode. Post more paradoxes!

You go back in time to prevent yourself from going back in time. [editline]07:33PM[/editline] The sentence under this is correct. [editline]07:33PM[/editline] THe sentence above this is incorrect.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;23630121]You go back in time to prevent yourself from going back in time.[/QUOTE] I tried that once, did not end well. And thats how the universe started.

(You can't divide with 0)/0

4 posts in and my mind is full of fuck :psyduck:

You want a paradox? Watch Inception. [editline]10:42PM[/editline] Also, play games from the Timesplitters series. Time paradoxes, time paradoxes everywhere.

You go back in time to prevent your dog from being hit by a car, and don't return to the future. However, because your dog was never hit by a car, when the time comes that you originally went back in time to prevent your dog from being hit by a car, you don't go back in time, meaning your dog is hit by a car. You go back in time to prevent your dog from being hit by a car. :psyduck:

[QUOTE=Crisis01;23629657]What would happen if Pinocchio said, "my nose will grow longer right now"?[/QUOTE] That's not a paradox.

[QUOTE=Game Zombie;23630319]That's not a paradox.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure it is. If it doesn't grow longer, then he lied. Meaning it has to grow longer. But then that means he told the truth, and it shouldn't have grown.

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/2-two-docks-420.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE=Anti Christ;23630371]I'm pretty sure it is. If it doesn't grow longer, then he lied. Meaning it has to grow longer. But then that means he told the truth, and it shouldn't have grown.[/QUOTE] And that is the day Pinocchio burst into flame.

If you are visited by a future self with a time machine, and he gives you a worn-out notebook to copy the plans for it down, so as to build the time machine. You then finish the time machine, and go back in time to give yourself the now old notebook. However, this creates a paradox: if you give yourself the plans for the time machine, then the plans have no origin, causing a paradox.

[QUOTE=40kplayer;23630536]If you are visited by a future self with a time machine, and he gives you a worn-out notebook to copy the plans for it down, so as to build the time machine. You then finish the time machine, and go back in time to give yourself the now old notebook. However, this creates a paradox: if you give yourself the plans for the time machine, then the plans have no origin, causing a paradox.[/QUOTE] Technically they do have an origin though, they originate from a separate timeline that no longer exists, in the new universe a you would pop into existence and hand another you a notebook. None of the laws of physics were violated, all you did was change a small event.

Here's the best I could get. Are you a hypocrite if you hate people that hate things?

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;23630873]Here's the best I could get. Are you a hypocrite if you hate people that hate things?[/QUOTE] No, you're Francis.

[QUOTE=Mercykiller;23630934]No, you're Francis.[/QUOTE] I lol'd.

What would happen if Pinocchio said his nose would divid by 0. :psyduck:

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[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;23633970]I did not post in this thread[/QUOTE] That does not cause a paradox. You're just contradicting yourself.

Shoot Ocelot in MGS3

Your time machine logs each of it's uses. You plan on going back in time, but if you see that you already did in the future then you won't. [QUOTE=Kyle902;23630121]You go back in time to prevent yourself from going back in time.[/QUOTE] And no, I didn't copy off of you.

[QUOTE=JolKally;23634024]That does not cause a paradox. You're just contradicting yourself.[/QUOTE] that's what a paradox is... [QUOTE=www.merriam-webster.com] Main Entry: [B]par·a·dox[/B] Pronunciation: \ˈper-ə-ˌdäks, ˈpa-rə-\ Function: [I]noun[/I] Etymology: Latin [I]paradoxum,[/I] from Greek [I]paradoxon,[/I] from neuter of [I]paradoxos[/I] contrary to expectation, from [I]para-[/I] + [I]dokein[/I] to think, seem — more at [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decent"]decent[/URL] Date: 1540 [B]1[/B] [B]:[/B] a tenet contrary to received opinion [B]2 a[/B] [B]:[/B] a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true [B]b[/B] [B]:[/B] a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true [B]c[/B] [B]:[/B] an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises [B]3[/B] [B]:[/B] one (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases [/QUOTE]

A young man (who was born intersex[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex"][/URL]) is taken taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is both his own mother and father, son, and daughter.

He would all of a sudden turn retarded while cumming

Raiden going back in time to kill naked snake.

[QUOTE=ohadje;23630154](You can't divide with 0)/0[/QUOTE] Well you kind of can. It produces 4 results: -0 (any fraction with a numerator of 0 equals zero) -1 (a number divided by itself is 0) yeh this is where it gets really wierd -infinity -negative infinity I may be wrong because I don't know really, REALLY advanced math

Life is a long death. [i]Technically[/i] a paradox.

i am sooo sarcastic right now.

You go back in time and stab your grandfather to death, before he has your mother. [editline]b[/editline] basically anything to do with time travel will end up in a paradox.

[QUOTE=Dapwnner;23635455]You go back in time and stab your grandfather to death, before he has your mother. [editline]b[/editline] basically anything to do with time travel will end up in a paradox.[/QUOTE] My grandfather gave birth to my mother? :raise:

[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;23635486]My grandfather gave birth to my mother? :raise:[/QUOTE] What, Am I the only one? Whos grandfather gave birth to my mom, that is.