Tag: paradox
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The Engagement Paradox
I don’t really want to start another division-by-zero post by pointing out how it is traditionally dismissed as “undefined,” but I have to, because it really is where The Engagement Paradox begins. It is easy to assume that the reason is something like “you can’t divide something into zero parts,” or that the result “would…
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Division by Zero — by the Rules of Division
Introduction When division by zero is dismissed as “undefined” something crucial goes missing. The conflict that “undefined” tries to avoid is not inherent to division, rather it reflects the limitations of the interpretations used to validate or extend division in other contexts. The consequences of supplying zero from the divisor to the inverse operation of multiplication with the quotient…
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All or Nothing — Division by Zero
If you divide by nothing, in one sense, you get nothing. In another sense, you are left with everything. However much there is to divide, all of it remains – undivided. The remainder is everything. To count it all, however, you must divide it up into discrete quantities. Of course, you can keep dividing it…
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A Point about Paradox
In the eternal moment, the past and the future are simply a matter of perspective and the past can be influenced by overlapping reinforcement or the intent of the resolving future. A time paradox is a self-informing sequence within a point. The classic grandfather paradox assumes that time is linear, ignoring the fact that the…
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Staring into the Face of Truth
“A story is as good a way to organize your thoughts as anything else,” she points out, poised in the shadows in the doorway. I quickly conclude that she is playing the part of my conscience. That, or devil’s advocate. Either way, she’s me. I cannot say she does not really exist without implying the…
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Matter and Movement in Four–or More–Dimensions
These days, it only takes a little curiosity, access to the Internet, and a bit of patience to find explanations of progressive spatial dimensions or examples of four dimensional geometry, such as the old favorite the hyper-square. Some of the things you will find use analogies like Flatland, or animations which is a way of…
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A Glimpse into the Eye of Paradox
On any given day, a small handful of people find their way to the eye of paradox. Some of them probably just glance at an article to see if it’s relevant to the search that brought them here. One or two might actually read something. Once in a blue moon, someone leaves a short comment.…
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Divide by Zero
Edit: Updated on Jan 12, 2026 with supporting math conforming to the intuited logic of the original post. I always came back to this article expecting to be ashamed by my “absurd” assertions. I always came away from reading it thinking there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, even though it simply wasn’t a mathematical paper.…
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