Imagine there's a tree in front of you, say, one kilometer away. To reach the tree from where you are, you would have to reach half the distance first, or 1/2 km.
To reach 1/2 km from the tree, you would have to reach half of the halved distance, or quarter of the distance, 1/4 km.
And this sequence would go and on - 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 , 1/16 and so forth - and it'll eventually end up to an infinite number, ad infinitum.
Since this sequence goes on forever, you and I now, upon reading and yet understanding this, would logically say that you would have to travel an infinite (no boundary) number if finite (with a boundary) distance. Thus, infinite amount of time.
Let me save you the trouble, conclusively speaking, we can never actually get anywhere owing this paradox a big favour.
Patutla ku slalu lambat gi skolah. Salah Tom ngan Zeno.
Anyway, this paradoxe is claimed to be attributed to Zeno of Elea.
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