h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

an objects motion is relative to its surroundings,
so if the unstoppable force collides with the immovable object,
and the immovalbe object does not move,
but the surroundings shift in relation to the unstoppable force
then relative to its surroundings the unstoppable force would not have stopped...

or
in an infinite number of realitys anything is possible
so everything happens
to a certain extent
under prevailing conditions
with a good run up and a following wind

CF

What object in the known universe does not move? How can any object be unmoveable? Unstoppable force could be termed irresistable force and I guess a black hole could be termed irresistable, since even light cannot escape from it. The question seems pointless without an unmoveable object.

If an object has no mass then it cannot be moved...the question is can there be an object which has no mass?

Ermm, there are plenty of massless things that can be moved.

Everything moves relative to something after all.

This is quite strange when you realise that movement distorts space/time, so space/time distortion is another thing that is relative to the observer. Probably.

Having experienced this phenomenon from both sides now - immovable objects stopped me while I was behaving as an irresistable force and I am now an immovable object in a world of irresistable forces - I have to tell you the answer is tangenital. The force will bounce off in a tangent.

The angle of incidence will determine the angle of the irresistable force's departure depending on the shock absorption properties of the object (compression) if it moves at all.


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