Pieter Jansegers

French teacher and ICT enthusiast.
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Feb 29
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In Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, you run toward a wall. As you run, you halve the distance to the wall, then halve it again, and so on. But if you continue to subdivide space forever, how can you ever actually reach the wall? (The answer is that you can’t: Once you’re within a few nanometers, atomic repulsion forces become too strong for you to get any closer.)
Chris Anderson (canderson@wired.com) is the editor in chief of Wired, in the article ”Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all