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Acceleration Impossible? (Science Concept)
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So I was sat on the toilet and came up with this idea that acceleration isn't theoretically possible. Now, I know what you might be thinking, but things get faster and things slow down so maybe what I'm trying to get at, is that the way it's measured (using numerical values) doesn't represent this accurately as I'll explain.

Let's say we're in a car from not moving and we want to get to a steady 30 miles per hour. Now obviously you can't just be going 30 miles per hour, you need to be going 1, then 2, then 3 and so on up until 30 which is great, but, to get to 1 miles per hour, you'd need to get to 0.1, then 0.2 then 0.3 and so on and to get to 0.1, you'd need to get to 0.01 as so on and so on.

Because numerical values are infinite in that there's endless numbers inside of other numbers, how does something get to the next value when there is a series of infinite values between the previous and next value? Again, yes, I know things get faster but I just think in theory, it's kind of paradoxical in that you get to the next number yet the numbers between should stop this.

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I suggest you take a read of [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] .

Acceleration is hard to get your head around if you dont know the physics & methodology behind it.
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