What happens when an irresistable force meets an immovable object?
Well, nothing. Because it's a paradox. There can be no such thing as an irresistable force, nor an immovable object.
However, in real life, what happens is this: The (non)irresistable force is my rapidly foreward-moving foot. The (semi)immovable object is the leg of a heavy chair.
As Sancho Panza says in "Man of La Mancha", whether the stone hits the pitcher, or the pitcher hits the stone, it's going to be very bad for the pitcher.
And that is what my broken toe looks like two weeks after the force met the object.
Well, nothing. Because it's a paradox. There can be no such thing as an irresistable force, nor an immovable object.
However, in real life, what happens is this: The (non)irresistable force is my rapidly foreward-moving foot. The (semi)immovable object is the leg of a heavy chair.
As Sancho Panza says in "Man of La Mancha", whether the stone hits the pitcher, or the pitcher hits the stone, it's going to be very bad for the pitcher.
And that is what my broken toe looks like two weeks after the force met the object.