Zeno’s paradoxes raise the question of: if motion, then how stasis? Or if stasis, then how motion? Forcing us to choose between a set of dichotomous models, motion is abandoned (Zeno was a student of Parmenides). Later on the British Empiricists of the Enlightenment held up the other side of the paradox: embracing the perpetual motion of the senses and abandoning the stasis of reason as mere metaphysical mysticism. But the history of the 20th century can be written as the history of dialectical synthesis. For example, Einstein clearly demonstrated how both motion and stasis exist at the same time. We just have to drop the common sense “prejudices that we acquired by the age of 18.” Therefore, in “space-time,” objects simply move until they don’t. Everybody can do as they please until they hit the cosmic speed limit “c”….stasis and motion are synthesized at last….How cool is that?
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