Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9154802-20180509212825/@comment-29564364-20180514182546

LardWad420 wrote: Unstoppable forces and immovable objects don't mix.

ANDY3556 wrote: I think that, if there's an immovable object, then there CAN'T exist an unstoppable force. It has to be one of them: not both.

GravitonPulse22 wrote: This reminds me the irresistible force paradox. If we take real science into consideration, the most concrete answer might be "one of both don't exist if the other does". Actually, there can if both are one in the same. If an object has infinite inertia, it will be both immovable to an observer at rest relative to it and unstoppable to an observer in motion relative to it. But, much like opposite Absolute powers, the problem comes when two of them are on a collision course with each other. Since both cannot be accelerated or decelerated in any direction, the only option left for them is to pass through each other without interacting.

LardWad420 wrote: This paradox is in place because a battle of absolutes essentially comes to a stalemate. Two opposite absolutes cannot stalemate nor mutually cancel out because that would contradict the properties of both, which is an outcome even less desirable than one winning out. For example, if an Absolute Attack and an Absolute Defense were to cancel each other out upon clashing, the defender would still be the victor as the defense will have fulfilled its role of stopping the attack and protecting its user even though it was canceled in the process.

ANDY3556 wrote: If there's a sword that cuts through all materials, then there can't be a shield that resists all swords. See? It depends on the mechanisms behind both objects. If the shield works by instantly robbing any object of its kinetic energy upon contact, then the blade will be stopped before it can cut into it. Such a shield would be be able to resist all swords without undermining the "can cut through all materials" property.

Alissa The Wise Wolf wrote: Absolute equating to a highly specified omnipotent effect means that only one of each absolute can exist. To have two identical Absolute Attacks would render them both lesser than absolute. This sounds like a non sequitur to me. To my knowledge, absolute does not entail singularity, so it would be perfectly possible for there to be two equally absolute attacks within the same continuity, be they identical or not.