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2.5.4 The Stadium
Consider three rows of objects arranged in parallel in a staggered formation. Row 1 remains at rest while rows 2 and 3 move in opposite directions until all rows are lined up. Due to the arrangement of the rows of objects and their movement, one object of e.g. row 3 will pass twice as many objects in row 2 than in row 1. Zeno then concludes that “double is sometimes equal to half”, or as Russell puts it: “Half the time may be equal to double the time.”. This gives the same conclusion as the Arrow paradox, that space can not be discrete, so we shall not need to discuss it further.


