What would happen if an unstoppable force came into contact with an immovable object ? Inquiring minds want to know your ideas
Sounds like matter and antimatter.
yes precisely what I was thinking too! So what do you think would happen if said circumstance occurred ? "IF" Hypothetically speaking.
As in the case of matter and antimatter, I'd expect it to depend on the mass of each. If we had a 1:1 thing going, I'd think both would be annihilated (and there'd probably be a terrific explosion in any case).
Hahahaha BUT That's the dilemma in the two!? Too tough to make a valid defense without being biased LOL An annihilation would then render the unstoppable stoppable! Ceasing to exist is stopping movement , no? Also Antimatter has Mass? Force can be invisible without form correct? Its an interesting thought none the less !
And if a thing ceases to exist, it's been moved out of existence, no? It's certainly not in the same place it was anymore. So each negates the other.
I think we all know that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared—that is, matter (which has mass) and energy (force) are convertible. You can take one and turn it into the other. It's all, in a sense, the same thing. Kind of like water, ice, and steam....
Edit: A note on the mass of antimatter. "Antimatter, substance composed of subatomic particles that have the mass, electric charge, and magnetic moment of the electrons, protons, and neutrons of ordinary matter but for which the electric charge and magnetic moment are opposite in sign."
Brb going to read that link! This is good stuff!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force It looks like Mass and Force are able to be compared so not interchangeable ? I dnt think "force" has "Mass" However Mass can use or be used by force. Good subject!
No, mass and energy aren't exactly the same thing—and neither are water and ice.
Energy can be converted into mass, but you're right: it is not mass until it's converted (and it takes a great deal of energy to produce even a tiny amount of mass).
Edit:
From the same article: "Antiprotons" (a type of antimatter) "can be produced by bombarding protons with protons. If enough energy is available—that is, if the incident proton has a kinetic energy of at least 5.6 gigaelectron volts (GeV; 109 eV)—extra particles of proton mass will appear according to the formula E = mc2."
Energy (in this case kinetic) can be—and in fact has been—converted into mass.
Returning to the original question, an unstoppable force has a lot of energy, and an immovable object has a lot of mass. So what happens when infinite energy has a violent meeting with infinite mass? Uh.
...The universe? Maybe?
Ahaha ! Yes!!! A Great "Big Bang"! voila! Woot woot !
Alternatively, one could posit a change in direction—the unstoppable force doesn't stop, it just keeps going at an angle—but it seems like that would bleed off some energy, possibly rendering the previously unstoppable force stoppable (and probably making the immovable object a bit more movable, too).
No more unstoppable force. No more immovable object. A kind of less dramatic negation, I guess.
Absolutely! That's why I find this particular "dilemma", So Amazingly interesting ! Beautiful and complex, all left to the imagination! (Excluding the altering of direction)
A dilemma is a difficult choice between two alternatives. There are all kinds of possible results for this particular thought experiment, even if you exclude the possibility of the unstoppable force glancing off to the side.
For instance, the unstoppable force might go through the immovable object, like a ghost through a wall. Or the two could negate one another so totally that there's no reaction whatsoever: they both just cease to exist. Or the whole thing might be a metaphor, and the unstoppable force and immovable object may decide that marriage wasn't a good idea after all, and break up so Unstoppable can spend their life traveling the world while Immovable stays home.
In any case: where there are more than two possible choices, the problem isn't a dilemma.
Ahhh! I like that, the unstoppable force moving straight through the unstoppable object! I love it and hate it at the same time LOL such force seems trivial if it can simply "ghost" through … hmm...But I like it more than not so Great point of view!
@Toshibazen Is the "unstoppable force" Chuck Norris? And the "immovable object" 1970's British Wrestler Big Daddy? If not, I frankly don't give a damn.
