Buttered Cat Paradox

Posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 am under Riddles/Paradoxes, Theme Week.

If cats always land on their feet, and buttered toast always lands buttered side down, how would a cat land if it were dropped from a large height with a piece of buttered toast strapped to it's back buttered side up?

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Buttered Cat Paradox

Buttered Cat Paradox

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  1. robocop says:

    actually it would defy gravity…. Just FYI

  2. admin says:

    That seems to be the logical opinion. But the problem is, it would create a perpetual motion machine as the cat’s feet would be pulled to the earth, as would the buttered side of the toast, thus creating the perpetual motion machine. The problem is though, perpetual motion machines don’t exists, hence the paradox.

  3. robocop says:

    space is a perpetual motion machine

  4. admin says:

    The term perpetual motion, taken literally, refers to movement that goes on forever. However, the term more commonly refers to any device or system that perpetually (indefinitely) produces more energy than it consumes, resulting in a net output of energy for indefinite time. The law of conservation of energy, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, implies that such a perpetual motion machine cannot exist.
    (source: wikipedia.org)

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