What is constantly moving and stopping at the same time?
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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@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.
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
A jet fighter, while it’s moving it can be heart-stopping.
Sub-atomic material? (That particle-wave theory business.)
@Snarp , not if you had a mac!!
@stratman37 You mean “not if you had a mac younger than two years old”, right?
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.
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
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?
But if it never stops can we really call the deceleration “stopping”?
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.
Time. thats what i think..
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Humans. We are moving faster than ever, but we are also dying with the universe.
@Rachienz – I know, right? And I LOVE sprinkles too!!
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