Bibliographic record
Abstract
Zeno of Elea was brilliant producing paradox [1]; the most famous is the story of Achilles and the tortoise. It can be summarized in these words: Achilles and the tortoise decide to have a race. Because Achilles can run twice as fast as the tortoise he gives her a long head start. Now, says Zeno, by the time Achilles reaches the tortoise’s starting point she would have moved ahead by half the distance of her lead. And by the time Achilles reaches that point she would have moved on by half of that distance. And so on, and so forth, ad infinitum. Achilles is never able to catch up with the tortoise, because at each point, by the time he has covered the distance between them, she will always have moved on further by half of that distance. As Magee [1] points, it is here an impeccable logical argument that leads to a false conclusion. As Borges [2] reports, many previous works had focused looking for a fault in the logic [3] but they all have failed, so Borges suggests looking back to the concept of our world. In this work, we shall use such suggestion focusing in the relativity theory. We are convinced that the inaccessibility of the paradox lies in work under the Galilean transforms in the Newtonian world. Despite this, we will try to see the problem under the Lorentzian transforms in the Eistenian world. For this purpose we first take a look at the paradox in Galilean mathematical terms and then we will look at the paradox under Lorentzian transform.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".