The paradox of the flying arrow could only be physically resolved in the 17th century by revising the state of the arrow. In the paradox, the state is determined solely by the position of the arrow in space, so actually as in the upper part of the image (repetition).
As a result, no distinction could be made between states in which the arrow has different speeds. With the introduction of the concept of impulse, in which a state is characterized by place and speed, that state was revised in a Newtonian way, and the paradox was thus solved.
Although the bottom part of the graph (reference time) is not relevant for the West, one could imagine that the paradox should be solved in a similar way.
Meanwhile it will be clear that the graph in this picture is not mathematically valid and so not intended to be scientific according to western standards. However, this doesn’t alter the fact that East has a similar paradox to solve as well.
The eastern solution of the paradox, however, requires a completely different approach, because line AB expresses a close alliance of space and time so that this line can be called a distance or interval in spacetime reference.
Such a distance is absolutely not commensurable with distance in spacial reference, as customary in the west.
- In spacial reference, a distance is always geometric.
- In spacetime reference, on the other hand, AB only represents the 2D surface of a (celestial) body for an infinite number of consecutive ‘atoms of time’ - the shortest possible moments of the as discontinuous regarded time - of a (celestial) body.
Thus, at each atom of time of the (celestial) body, its surface actually occupies a different (stationary) position in space.
Continue to: 4.3.2. Solving the paradox the eastern way