Zeno of EleaZeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 5th century BC Distinguished as a student of Parmenides, he based many of his ideas around his mentor. Zeno believed, like his mentor, that everything exists fixedly. Everything in life can be explained by the idea of ​​an already established and implemented purpose. Zeno argued that the objects occupying this world are never in motion. That anything in “motion” is just an illusion and could never have started the movement. He achieved this by using his profound paradoxes. His paradoxes against motion include: the flying arrow, Achilles and the tortoise, and the paradox of dichotomy. These are just some of Zeno's surviving ideas. If Zeno's work had existed today, who knows what other mysteries it might have proposed. The Flying Arrow is a statement against an arrow moving as it flies through the air. Zeno says that for movement to occur, an entity would have to change its position. Use a flying arrow as an illustration. Zeno says that the arrow cannot move to where it is not because it is not spending the time to complete that task. He also states that the arrow cannot move to where it is because it cannot occupy the space it is already in. He then claims that an arrow is motionless. In other words, if you photographed an arrow flying in every single image, the arrow would appear not to be moving; only when you put the images together will the arrow appear to move. This paradox established by Zeno holds that the movement that occurs through space are points. Every moment is just another point in space, or another image. Achilles and the tortoise is another paradox stated by Zeno. Zeno begins by stating that Achilles is racing with a...... middle of paper...... your destination gets closer (split in half) the time interval to get to said destination gets shorter. Ever decreasing periods of time can be thought of as the Achilles paradox. Once again we can pull the convergent infinite series and establish a finite point where the journey begins. Once the journey begins, the rest is a breeze. Zeno was a true master of philosophical quizzes. It has baffled many of the greatest philosophers such as Aristotle with its puzzles and paradoxes. Zeno accomplished what he set out to do during his time. If Zeno had had the information available about space and time today, the possibility of creating more complex and perplexing paradoxes might have been a reality. Unfortunately for Zeno, he is not alive today to see how his paradoxes lasted or to offer rebuttals and possible answers to the answers given by today's scientists and great thinkers..