Have you ever wondered what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object?

No, not at all. I wonder about possible physical phenomina; not impossible ones...like travel faster than light, travel into the past, unsotoppable objects, immovable objects, infinitely thin strings, etc.





By the way, we can easily show the impossibility of your scenario. Consider dp = Fdt which is the impulse of your collision. The are two possible outcomes: either momentum changes, dp %26lt;%26gt; 0, or it does not, dp = 0.





And dt = 0 in either case because unstoppable and immoveable imply perfect elasticity and no deformation losses. Both effects require some passage of time if they are not perfect and/or deformation occurs during the collision. Otherwise, dt = 0 must be true.





Thus F = dp/dt = dp/0 ---%26gt; infinity if dp %26lt;%26gt; 0 or indeterminate if dp = 0. In other words, this is an impossible scenario because in a finite universe with finite energy infinity does not exist in any form.





BTW, the answer claiming unstoppable force is mixing energy with force. While there is a conservation of energy law, there is no such thing for force.Have you ever wondered what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object?
(Johnny Mercer, 1954)


When an irresistible force such as you


Meets an old immovable object like me


You can bet as sure as you live


Somewhere, sometime, somehow


Something's gotta give





Johnny was right about this. Something's gotta give. No matter strong the force, there is probably some object that could stop it. And no matter the mass of the object, there is probably a force strong enough to move it.Have you ever wondered what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object?
Unstoppable object would just change directions. Say there's an unmovable wall and an unstopable force hits it, the force would either carry on up the wall( there is enough force behind it to do this because it is unstoppable) or it will begin to go up the wall, gravity would take its toll, and it would fall back down and keep doing that over and over. I guess it could get eventually turned around too and go the opposite direction forever. But yeah he's right, violation of Newton's laws. Never gonna happen.
I'm glad you said ';unstoppable force'; rather than ';unstoppable object';. Force can go from one object into another, and even exit as a different form of energy.





In your example, the unstoppable force would go into the unmovable object, and since it's unmovable, the force will exit, most likely as heat, sound, or even light.
Things like unstoppable forces and unmovable objects don't exist or do they? IMO there is a possibility that in the universe there is either ONE unstoppable force or ONE unmovable object. Both can't exist.
It is impossible due to a language thing because if the object is unmovable then the force must be stoppable.
since both require an amount of energy not present in the universe, i never bothered to.


take that, chinese proverbians!
It's like a carwreck with a parked car.


The parked car is totaled, and moved.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?





Nonsense questions get nonsense answers!
Violation of Newton's 2nd law.
Everytime I bump into my mother-in-law...
Total Chaos, The Big Bang.