the greeks were a confusing lot and would rather spend hours talking about natural philosophy the branch now known as physics to come with several paradoxes. zeno has a famous paradox which basically states that if you start 100 meters ahead of usian bolt and you start running at the same time. by the time usian bolt travels 100 meters , you would have travelled a certain distance say 10 meters . now by the time usian bolt covers these ten meters, you would have travelled another 1 meter or 2 meters, by the time usian bolt covers this distance you may have covered a 100 cm and so on basically usian bolt could never overtake you. what is the fallacy or what is wrong wth this arguement ?
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