The Paradox of Motion
4 min readFeb 1, 2020
The universe is a machine that is not documented.
At any one instant, an object must be at rest, an idea captured by this illustration of a moving dancer. Since this is ture for all instants, surely the object will always be at rest, so how can motion arise? The Greek philosopher Zeno posed this paradox as a challenge to the belief that time consists of a succession of discrete instants.