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Physics Paradoxes

  • Fermi Paradox - Given the high probability of alien civilizations, why have we found no evidence of them? The univer...

  • Grandfather Paradox - If you travel back in time and prevent your grandparents from meeting, you'd never be born - so you ...

  • Olbers' Paradox - If the universe is infinite and eternal, why isn't the night sky blazingly bright? Every line of sig...

  • Black Hole Information Paradox - Information cannot be destroyed, but black holes seem to destroy everything. Where does the informat...

  • Archer's Paradox - An arrow must flex around the bow handle to hit a target it's not initially pointed at!...

  • Hydrostatic Paradox - Pressure at the bottom depends only on height, not container shape. A narrow tube exerts the same pr...

  • Faint Sun Paradox - The early Sun was 30% dimmer, yet Earth had liquid water. It should have been frozen!...

  • EPR Paradox - Measuring one entangled particle instantly affects another light-years away - "spooky action at a di...

  • Heat Death Paradox - If the universe were infinitely old, it would have reached maximum entropy. Why hasn't it?...

  • Banach-Tarski Paradox - A sphere can be decomposed into pieces and reassembled into TWO identical spheres! Mathematical dupl...

  • Two Capacitor Paradox - Connect a charged capacitor to an empty one. Energy is lost! Where does it go?...

  • Irresistible Force Paradox - What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?...

  • Moving Rows Paradox (Zeno) - Zeno's paradox about relative motion - time passes twice as fast from one perspective....

  • Grain of Millet - A single grain makes no sound, yet 10,000 grains make noise - how can many nothings become something...

  • Aristotle's Wheel Paradox - Two concentric circles travel different distances but complete rotation together....

  • Feynman Sprinkler - When a sprinkler sucks in water, which direction does it spin?...

  • D'Alembert's Paradox - Ideal fluids exert no force on objects - contradicting real experience....

  • Schrodinger's Cat - Cat in superposition of alive and dead until observed....

  • Quantum Zeno Effect - Continuously observing a quantum system prevents it from changing state....

  • Double-Slit Experiment - Particles behave as waves when unobserved, particles when observed....

  • Twin Paradox - Space traveler returns younger than their twin who stayed on Earth....

  • Maxwell's Demon - A hypothetical demon could violate the second law of thermodynamics....

  • Mpemba Effect - Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under certain conditions....

  • Loschmidt's Paradox - Time-reversible microscopic laws vs irreversible macroscopic entropy....

  • Gibbs Paradox - Entropy of mixing identical gases should be zero, yet calculation gives non-zero....