Originally posted by Adam_PoE
[list=1][*]An object with infinite inertia or mass would create a singularity and collapse under the weight of its own gravity.[*]The transfer of energy does not have to be prefect so long as the redirection of the vector costs the scalar an equivocal amount of energy as is lost by the vector in redirection. If both objects are approaching infinite inertia at the same rate, this should not be a problem.[/list]
The only way this situation can be resolved is if the irresistible force is stopped and the immovable object is moved, or if the irresistible force is redirected and the immovable object is not moved. In the former instance, both lose their absolute nature, but in the latter, both retain their absolute nature.
1. In the real world, yes. But not as abstract absolutes in a thought experiment.
2. Again, real-world stuff, perfectly acceptable in that specified context, as it is probably the best the real world can do translating abstract absolutes into real physics (though personally, I would still say the Vector has been compromised in that its original condition--not magnitude-wise, which the transfer of energy would preserve--but direction-wise, no longer exists).
Regardless, once we translate this thought experiment into the real world, we are no longer dealing with absolutes, just nature's best approximation. But in a thought experiment, we are God, able to deal with the absolute qualities of each abstract unhindered by any other variable (eg, inertia, shape, rate of approach to infinity); and in that context, I find the only true solution is that the Vector and Scalar pass through one another. Nothing has changed for either entity, absolutely.