So, theoretically.... what would happens if...

[SSSnail]

An unstoppable force come up against an immovable object?


Bust that Mythbusters!

Edit: Adding a bit more contents to the discussion.

We're discussion absolute conditions, by definition they're both equal in strength according to Newton's laws.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: SSSnail


Bust that Mythbusters!

The Mythbusters have been busted many many many times. It's a cute show, but their methods are not thorough or accurate.

BTW, the unstoppable force always wins. Want to see what happens to an immovable object over time? Take a peek at the Grand Canyon.

 

[JoeFahey]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: SSSnail


Bust that Mythbusters!

The Mythbusters have been busted many many many times. It's a cute show, but their methods are not thorough or accurate.

BTW, the unstoppable force always wins. Want to see what happens to an immovable object over time? Take a peek at the Grand Canyon.

But no one can beat Batman...

 

[Pastore]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: SSSnail


Bust that Mythbusters!

The Mythbusters have been busted many many many times. It's a cute show, but their methods are not thorough or accurate.

BTW, the unstoppable force always wins. Want to see what happens to an immovable object over time? Take a peek at the Grand Canyon.

Isn't that a terrible example because the damn thing will erode away forever?

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: SSSnail


Bust that Mythbusters!

The Mythbusters have been busted many many many times. It's a cute show, but their methods are not thorough or accurate.

BTW, the unstoppable force always wins. Want to see what happens to an immovable object over time? Take a peek at the Grand Canyon.

Well, the Grand Canyon is not immovable; it is not movable by us, but it can be moved. We're discussion absolute conditions, by definition they're both equal in strength according to Newton's laws.

 

[PHiuR]

immovable object > unstoppable force

kbye

 

[coldmeat]

Isn't it impossible for both an immovable object and an unstoppable force to exist?

 

[Aluvus]

http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

 

[DaTT]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

Bling!

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

Might knock the wall over, and 'relocate' parts of the metal of the car, assuming its not constructed of a single solid piece of said metal.

 

[Capone]

Wouldn't the unstoppable force just change directions?

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

Might knock the wall over, and 'relocate' parts of the metal of the car, assuming its not constructed of a single solid piece of said metal.

EDIT: Didn't read it properly.

Why does the hardest metal look like diamond?

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

Might knock the wall over, and 'relocate' parts of the metal of the car, assuming its not constructed of a single solid piece of said metal.

Wat.

Both the car and the wall would shatter.

Diamond is hard, not strong.

I was about to post my error. Both shatter.

 

[arrfep]

The problem with that line in the movie was it immediately made me think of the Sammy Davis, Jr. song "Something's gotta give," which is about as undramatic a song as possible to be playing in your head in an intense movie confrontation scene.

 

[Mojoed]

Doesn't really matter. I'd just sell them to a vendor for a couple of gold.

 

[sunzt]

they would both be forked in the end.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Doesn't really matter. I'd just sell them to a vendor for a couple of gold.

:laugh:

 

[JRich]

Originally posted by: Capone
Wouldn't the unstoppable force just change directions?

Bounce shot!

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Doesn't really matter. I'd just sell them to a vendor for a couple of gold.

Srsly. VENDOR TRASH

 

[SlitheryDee]

In a universe where there is an unstoppable force there can be no immovable object or the force would not be unstoppable. In a universe where there is an immovable object there can be no unstoppable force or the object would not be immovable.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Capone
Wouldn't the unstoppable force just change directions?

that's not the point, you have to look at it like a king of the hill situation where the immovable object is on top of the hill doing everything it its power to stay put, while the unstoppable force is trying to move that object so it can be on top of the hill...

both simply cannot exist at the same time, as one has to beat the other in order to retain its own title and thus which ever of the two is defeated is no longer truly unstoppable or immovable

if your scenario were true, then the unstoppable force would have been stopped (and then redirected) as the immovable object would remain unmoved...

 

[SSSnail]

So we just changed a fundamental law in physics?

According to some of the arguments, one force can exist without its opposite?

Damn, we're geniuses.

 

[l0cke]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

So that's Diamondium then?

 

[Leros]

An unstoppable force would have infinite energy, which is impossible.

I'm not sure about this, but wouldn't an immovable object have infinite friction and/or infinite durability?

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Aluvus
http://images.wikia.com/uncycl...a/a6/1148550915225.jpg

Might knock the wall over, and 'relocate' parts of the metal of the car, assuming its not constructed of a single solid piece of said metal.

Hard usually equals brittle. Diamond will shatter pretty easily, as will most hardened tool steels. If you drop good end mills you'll break off the corners.

With that said, the car and wall will shatter and the driver will be impaled with very very pointy shards.