I just overheard one side of a telephone conversation in which the conversant described something as "physically impossible", emphasis on "physically".

Is something that is "physically" impossible more impossible than something that is merely impossible without being "physically" so?

I always thought that impossibility was an absolute: either something is impossible or else it isn't.

 

I think the term "physically impossible" usually describes something that the human body cannot do.

i.e.-- lifting a 2-ton boulder. that's physically impossible for a human body, but not for a crane.

 

You can't put your right elbow in your left ear.
















How many of you just tried it.

 

I can!

























How many of you just tried it, AGAIN!

 

hahaha you guys are funny.

 

I believe if you said your S2000 could go Mach3 you might say it's physically impossible, however, not THEORETICALLY impossible.

 

No, physically impossible would be staying in your own lane while driving at Mach 3 with your right elbow in your left ear

 

^^ How many of you just tried that?

 

an even easier one:

it is phyisically impossible to lick your own elbow

it is also phyisically impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

No, its not My friend Katie can lick her own elbow, its true!