Paradoxes

First of all, if you, by any incredible time-space paradox, don’t know what a paradox is, an explanation. Paradox is a situation that is not possible, a contradiction, a sentence that denies itself. For example: A Cretan said that all Cretans are liars.

And there’s a paradox. How can we believe that Cretan, if he said that all Cretans lie? And then again, if he lied about lying, it’s like in maths, when you multiply 2 negative numbers, you get a positive result. So, he lied about lying and told the truth. Errm… Okay, I may have gotten lost at some point. Ah, nevermind. Paradoxes are cool.

A very interesting paradox is known as a grandfather paradox and it goes like this: imagine a man travelling to the past to kill his grandfather before he met the traveler’s grandmother. Killing him, he sets off a temporal paradox that makes one of his parents, and thus himself disappear. However, if he kills the grandfather(and in extent himself), there would be no one to kill the grandfather in the first place and he would meet the traveler’s grandmother, so the traveler would be conceived and he would then travel back in time to kill his own grandfather etc; etc.

Yes, it’s puzzling, but it’s just AWESOME! Here’s some more:

If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?

If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception.” “There’s always an exception to the rule, except to the exception of the rule — which is, in of itself, an accepted exception of the rule.

This sentence is false.

Is the answer to this question no?

I’m lying.

And the famous Socratic paradox: I know that I know nothing at all.

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