Zeno’s paradox is a trick question set up to fool the gullible. What’s the trick? The trick is to require the faster traveler to always reduce its distance traveled by one-half in each segment. That way, by definition, the faster traveller can never catch the slower traveler. In other words, the trick involves limiting the distance travelled to less than the distance required for the faster traveller to catch the slower traveller. A car travelling at 60 MPH, vs. another car travelling at 30 MPH, with a lead of 30 miles, will catch the slower car in one hour, but cannot catch the slower car if
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