Can you imagine a speedy Achilles never overtaking a tortoise crawling at a snail’s pace? Or an arrow in mid-flight frozen ...

As for how the quantum Zeno effect does this, Barontini explains it by referring to Zeno’s original, classical paradox. In the fifth century BCE, the philosopher Zeno of Elea posed a conundrum based ...

The Greek philosopher [Zeno of Elea] proposed that an arrow in flight was in fact not in motion and its visible movement is only an illusion. A simple example of this is to glance at an arrow in ...

BBC Bitesize takes a look at some of the classical and modern paradoxes that have blown our minds across the centuries. First argued by the 5th Century BC Greek philosopher Zeno, the Achilles ...