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What is constantly moving and stopping at the same time?

Asked by loveurmindnsoul (380points) November 30th, 2009

This is a question a professor asked me. He said there is no way you can google it for the answer.

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gemiwing's avatar

Time. It’s all relative.

nebule's avatar

@gemiwing is that the answer? or just an idea,... and @loveurmindnsoul is there more than one answer?

gemiwing's avatar

@lynneblundell Just a guess. It works for me though. and my one cup of coffee so far, so that may change I always get a different answer for riddles so I wouldn’t bet on it.

gemiwing's avatar

It could also be the broad idea of traffic. I mean it’s moving somewhere, just not where I usually find myself. see? guarantee you that’s not the right answer

nebule's avatar

@loveurmindnsoul what kind of professor? what subject?

waves?

PandoraBoxx's avatar

Your digestive system.

Flarlarlar's avatar

A jet fighter, while it’s moving it can be heart-stopping.

janbb's avatar

Sub-atomic material? (That particle-wave theory business.)

loser's avatar

Everything.

Snarp's avatar

My computer?

stratman37's avatar

@Snarp , not if you had a mac!!

Flarlarlar's avatar

@stratman37 You mean “not if you had a mac younger than two years old”, right?

Dog's avatar

A clock?

erichw1504's avatar

Your thoughts.

Cupcake's avatar

Nice @erichw1504 – I was going to say My Mind.

veronasgirl's avatar

My first thought is Time. Time is always moving and usually either too quickly or too slowly. But there are always special moments where time seems to stand still.

Fyrius's avatar

There’s something paradoxical about time doing several this at the same time, though. The notion of simultaneity itself relies on time, so it gets kind of weird when you’re talking about what time does.

I think the train network might be a good guess.

kruger_d's avatar

a pendulum

Fyrius's avatar

@kruger_d
Clever!
A pendulum moves all the time, even while it’s stopping. Yes. But it only spends half of the time stopping… the other half of every swing, it’s speeding up.
Maybe something that asymptotically slows down constantly, decreasing its speed with smaller and smaller bits, so that it never really ends up standing still? It’s stopping and moving all the time.
Can we think of anything like that?

kruger_d's avatar

But if it never stops can we really call the deceleration “stopping”?

Fyrius's avatar

Hm… good point. I’m not sure.

Well, riddles often rely on using words in weird ways. I wouldn’t put it past your average riddler to say it would count.

RAWRxRandy's avatar

Time. thats what i think..

Fernspider's avatar

@Cupcake – your avatar makes me crazy! I want that cupcake so bad! The frosting looking AMAZING. * dribble * mmmm, cuppppcaaaaake xoxoxo.

FireMadeFlesh's avatar

Humans. We are moving faster than ever, but we are also dying with the universe.

Cupcake's avatar

@Rachienz – I know, right? And I LOVE sprinkles too!!

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