Hm. I've thought of something that makes your answer correct, but don't yet have a way of expressing it...I still stand by my answer
Hm. I've thought of something that makes your answer correct, but don't yet have a way of expressing it...I still stand by my answer
... don't yet have a way of expressing it...
Er, I have a cold. And a bad back. And there's been a flood, a power cut, and a plague of locusts.That's so not you Softus.
Don't you start.Was there a conveyor on the mountain path?
I disagree.100% Certainty of it happening once.
That's a different scenario.Imagine that instead of it being Bob going up one day, and Bob coming down the next, it is two different people doing the two journeys on the same day.
Why do people introduce alternative scenarios in an attempt to prove invalid reasoning?
Yes, but now "imagine" your scenario being run on two different days, with the random speed factor - will your two people pass on the second day at the same place that they did on the first?They must pass somewhere....
Upon reflection, so do I.I disagree with your disagreement.
I'm trying to do that, and I'll let you know how I get on.Try imagining then, that someone replicates Bob's Day 1 journey exactly on Day 2. He will pass Bob at some point, thus proving that he was in the same point at the same time once.
The easiest way to see it, is to give Bob a twin, and do both journeys on the same day.
I would like to challenge your answer.
Same journey, same route, random speeds, ok?
Lets say the mountain is 600 metres high.
Day 1, he takes
2 hours to reach 100 metres-time =08.00
1/2 hour to reach 200metres-time =08.30
1 hour to reach300 metres-time=09.30
1/2 hour to reach 400 metres-time=10.00
1 hour to reach 500 metres-time=11.00
1 hour to reach 600 metres-time=12.00
Total time taken = 6 hours.
Day 2 he takes,
2 hours to reach 500 metre mark-time=08.00
1 hour to reach 400 metre mark-time=09.00
1 hour to reach 300 metre mark-time=10.00
1/2 hour to reach 200 metre mark-time=10.30
1 hour to reach 100 metre mark-time=11.30
1/2 hour to reach base level-time = 12.00
At no time does he pass the same spot at the same time therefore there is no certainty that he will which means the odds are 50/50.
Bob climbs a mountain. Meanwhile, Bob's twin brother descends the same mountain. Both start at 06.00 hrs, on the same day, and reach their destinations by noon-12.00hrs. The paths they take are identical, except in opposite directions.
What are the chances that Bob and his twin meet, and that there is no rip in the spacetime continuum at the moment they meet?
Answer: 100%.