/lit/ - Literature

>Your thoughts and actions are caused by X, and X was caused by Y, and so on...
>Ok but what's the first cause?
>...

How much natural science/engineering do I have to know in order to write a space opera? It doesn't need to be Hard SF™, but I'd rather it not be completely silly or embarrassing, either.

>>11760108
I mean yeah, I know that motion actually exists, Anon.

But the other paradoxes at least make sense - I can see why Zeno would argue that and an unsophisticated person would not be able to refute him.
But this? I don't get it.

It's kind of like humor. I wrote an MA thesis on humor and several of the prominent theories claim (in super oversimplified terms) that something is funny if it seems to make sense and not make sense at the same time. e.g. the joke:

>Exam question: name five African animals.
>Student answer: 3 lions and 2 giraffes

This joke would not be funny (or even interpreted as a joke) if the student's answer was correct (naming five different species), non-obviously wrong (naming an obscure species that isn't African but one might be mistaken that it is) or completely nonsensical ("half an apple"). It's only funny because it's pseudological - actually false but spuriously true.
Same with the paradoxes. They make you think because they obviously assault common sense but they are still seemingly correct.

>>11760124
>>11760130
Those formulations make more sense, thank you. But are they the same as
>in a place just its own size
?
Is it just some language quirk I don't understand? What does any of this have to do with size?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqrqqKt12Q&t=611s

What I'm listening to atm. Really like the first and last track.

Give me your opinions.

>Browsing through girls profiles on OkCupid
>See decent looking girl, seems to be the bookish type
>I'm a Ravenclaw :)
>Repeat ad nauseam

How the fuck is this possible? Those are university students, for the most part, and some go to unis ranked WAY higher than mine. I don't understand.