Meet Bernard, a brilliant but slightly unhinged physicist who's discovered a paradox that's driving him madchartInstance>
According to the fundamental laws of physics, a ball dropped from 5 meters will fall 5 meters. However, if you were to drop the same ball in a gravitational wave field created by a nearby black hole, the laws of physics as we know them would fail, and the ball would fall 7.3 meters.
Bernard's been trying to wrap his head around this paradox for months, but it's only driving him further into madness.
He's started to see the universe as a never-ending series of nested paradoxes, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Bernard's taken to standing in an elevator, pressing the button for the ground floor, only to find himself on the 20th floor, staring at a sign that reads: 'You're 20 floors away from the ground.'
It's not just the physical laws of physics that are failing him, but the fabric of reality itself.
Bernard's questioning whether he's just experiencing a series of unfortunate elevator malfunctions or if the universe itself is conspiring against him.
Join us next time on 'Paradoxes Explained' when we'll be discussing the Paradox of the Inverse Butterfly Effect, where every time you try to explain something, it becomes more confusing.
Or, for a more in-depth look at the Paradoxes of Bernard, visit our Paradox Wiki
Or, if you just want to see more of Bernard's brain-splintering thought processes, visit Paradox Blog