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If a body moves from A to B then before it reaches B it passes through the mid-point, say B1 of AB. Now to move to B1 it must first reach the mid-point B2 of AB1 . Continue this argument to see that A must move through an infinite number of distances and so cannot move. Zeno of Elea 450 BC

 

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No, It moves through a mulitple of "Plank Lengths"

 

I forget the exact length, but its either the distance light travels in a plank time, or a plank time is the time it takes light to travel a plank length.

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No' date=' It moves through a mulitple of "Plank Lengths"

 

I forget the exact length, but its either the distance light travels in a plank time, or a plank time is the time it takes light to travel a plank length.[/quote']

 

Distance travelled is a frame dependent quantity.

 

one Planck length is something around 10^-35 of a meter.

 

But if something jumped that distance in one frame,

 

it would have jumed twice that distance in a frame moving relative to the other frame, at twice the speed.

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It seemed like a paradox to me as well.

I was wondering what the calculus would make of it.

 

anyone at the calculus level would realize that the instant you're moving, you are covering an infinite number of distances every second. infinity/infinity is perfectly capable of being a real number. so things can in fact move (obviously).

 

whenever someone tells you movement is impossible i recommend the stapler method.

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