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Title text:

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.

Transcript:

[An arrow pointing to the right and a trapezoid are labeled as 'Unstoppable Force' and 'Immovable Object' respectively.]
[The arrow is shown as entering the trapezoid from the left and the part of it in said trapezoid is coloured gray.]
[The arrow is shown as leaving the trapezoid to the right and is coloured black.]
[Caption below the panel:] I don't see why people find this scenario to be tricky.

Source: https://xkcd.com/3084/

explainxkcd for #3084

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh. This is a good point. Force = energy, and even an immovable object can carry energy. I assume.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

i think I've made that game engine before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Dammit I should have posted my exact same solution back when I thought of it for the first time, but I was lazy so eh my fuck up

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Noooooo! You're violating my binary thinking! Either A or B has to win!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Maybe the universe will crash due to division by zero, floating-point error, integer overflow and segmentation fault, all of them occurring simultaneously. The objects will experience infinite velocity and infinite forces, there will be rounding errors, the system will run out of RAM and storage space. The universal CPU will max out all threads, and run out of cooling capacity. The hardware catches fire, the entire universe immediately collapses into a singularity, resulting in a new big bang as the system reboots. Oh, and the log files are corrupted, so good luck troubleshooting that one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually how black holes are made

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A popup will appear asking you to buy the "Extended Physics" DLC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

First billion years free. After that it’s 17.99 per millennia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What currency?

I doubt the universe accepts Euro or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's just 17.99. Take it or leave it.

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