Physics
For more details on this topic, see Physical paradox.- Cool tropics paradox: A contradiction between modelled estimates of tropical temperatures during warm, ice-free periods of the Cretaceous and Eocene, and the colder temperatures that proxies suggest were present.
- The holographic principle: The amount of information that can be stored in a given volume is not proportional to the volume but to the area that bounds that volume.
- Irresistible force paradox: What would happen if an unstoppable force hit an immovable object?
Read more about this topic: List Of Paradoxes
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“But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)