Grains of sand, time traveling grandkids, and lottery tickets are all included in one of our most baffling tens yet.
Most of us, most of the time habitually see life through a narrow lens. Limited by our conditioned responses to events, our knowledge about the world and our unwillingness to see things differently. However sometimes as new discoveries are made, new understanding’s come along of the universe, which void what we thought to be true…
The paradox: the ultimate challenge of the mind, a puzzle of sorts where either outcome contradicts the other, or relies entirely on perspective. These types of mind games where the only winning move is an endless loop of analysis leads the way to great conversations and serves as a great way to perfect the art of amicable debate.
Prepare to have your mind blown with 10 Mind-Blowing Paradoxes!
10The Grandfather Paradox
A time traveler visits the past and kills his grandfather before he has children. How could he himself have come into existence? The paradox has been used to argue against the possibility of backward time-travel.
09The Paradox of the court
A man given legal training promises to pay his teacher fee after winning his 1st case. But the teacher sues to get the money sooner. If the man wins in court, it is his 1st case so he must pay, but if he loses he must still pay.
08The Omnipotence Paradox
Could an all-powerful being create a stone they are unable to lift? If they created the stone, they would no longer be all-powerful.
07The liar´s Paradox
Traced to Aristotle, this puzzle gives the contradictory statement “this sentence is false”. If the statement is false then it is actually telling the truth but in can´t be the truth as that makes the sentence a lie.
06Catch 22
The only way to escape a life-threatening situation is to prove you are mad. But asking for the test to prove madness demonstrates the rational desire to stay alive I.E. proof of sanity.
05Paradox
10.000 grains of sand make a heap of sand but if one is removed, 9999 grains still make a heap. As 1 grain cannot make a difference, if they are all removed individually. Does the final grain still count as a heap?
04The Ship of Theseus
A ship sails for 102 years, replacing all 100 of its boards, its mast and sail. How can it still be the ship of Theseus if nothing of the original boat remains?
03The Barber Paradox
In a town of clean-shaven men everyone must either A: shave themselves, or B: go to the 1 male barber. But following this who shaves the barber? He cannot shave himself without breaking the rule.
02The Lottery Paradox
Ten million lottery tickets are sold: statistically you are justified in believing yours will not win. Likewise you can safely assume each ticket in not the winner – yet contradictorily you know one will win.
01The Bootstrap Paradox
A time traveler buys a copy of Macbeth , which he then gives to Shakespeare before the playwright writes it. If Shakespeare copied the play from the modern text, who wrote Macbeth.
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