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| + | KILL ALL NIGGERS |
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| − | | date = May 2, 2025
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| − | | title = Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
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| − | | titletext = Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.
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| − | ==Explanation==
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| − | {{incomplete|This page was created by an INFINITE MASS, MOST COMMONLY KNOWN AS "YOUR MOM". Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
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| − | An "unstoppable force meeting an immovable object" is a common expression when two things with mutually exclusive properties are forced to interact.
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| − | In the comic this is depicted with three drawings, first showing an arrow representing an unstoppable force moving toward an object that is immovable. In the next drawing they meet and the force arrow enters the object. In the final drawing the force arrow is moving past the object that has, of course, not been moved. But the force has also not been stopped. In the caption below [[Randall]] states that he cannot understand why people find this scenario to be tricky.
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| − | Most of the time, the expression is just that, an expression, one that is meant to convey there will be a lot of destruction when the two things meet. Sometimes it is a euphemism for more complex things such as people or ideologies (who have contradictory goals and are unwilling or unable to compromise), other times it's an exaggeration for large and powerful forces that are not literally unstoppable but still cause massive damage when they run into each other.
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| − | Randall proposes a solution to the paradox: the unstoppable force will not actually interact with the immovable object; the unstoppable force is not stopped and the immovable object is not moved.
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| − | An example explanation of this situation is described in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKc5kgPVrA video] by {{w|Minute Physics}}. This comic could actually be said to show what is shown in the video.
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| − | Randalls comic makes a play on the word "force" which has different interpretations depending on context. In casual language, an object can be a "force" if it carries enough energy, while to a physicist like Randall it describes a fundamental influence between particles of matter, and not all forces interact with all types of matter, nor ''can'' they be stopped (only depleted, by interaction and dispersion over their effective distance). The humor derives from the differences between the lay-impressions of the scenario and a more technical interpretation, in line with prior [[123: Centrifugal Force|informative comics]] of this ilk.
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| − | In the title text Randall makes it clear that unstoppable force-carrying particles do not interact with immovable matter by definition. Thus each of these "impossible" concepts can exist, but since they can never interact, the problem of what will happen when they do, is thus not relevant. In quantum physics all forces are mediated by force-carrying particles, but this is not usually something that is relevant to take into account, when macroscopic objects interact.
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| − | ==Transcript==
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| − | :[In one panel there are three drawings representing the same scenario at three different times. In the first drawing shows a right-pointing arrow ti the left, and a rounded trapezium-like object to the right of the centre. They are both labeled with a line going from the label above down to the objects:]
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| − | :Unstoppable Force
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| − | :Immovable Object
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| − | :[In the second drawing the arrow is shown in the process of moving through the trapezoid, the part of the arrow within the trapezoid is drawn in gray lines.]
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| − | :[In the third drawing the arrow is to the right of the trapezoid.]
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| − | :[Caption below the panel:]
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| − | :I don't see why people find this scenario to be tricky.
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