Hello guys, here you are going through another blog of mine while I thank you for reading my previous ones, in case you did.

Don't worry, I don't expect you to already have an answer to the above question. Have some patience.

This sentence is false.

The problem is that if you say that this sentence is true, then what it says is true, which means it is false. And then if it is false, then it is not false because it says so and hence it is true. So either way you work upon it, you are gonna end up in an endless chain of true and false cycle which doesn't really make sense.

What then is the answer? Well, does it even have an answer? And now you know that not every question has an answer.

This is the part where you should know about what a paradox is. A paradox is a sentence which leads to two consequences completely contradictory to each other not letting any result to be true. For example you say that you are hungry and don't want to eat anything! If you are hungry, you would want to eat someting but you are saying that you don't want to eat anything and if you don't want to eat anything, then you mustn't be hungry but you are.

The given question is a paradox known as the liar paradox. It can be shown in other ways too like - I say that I am lying. Now, if I am lying, I must not be lying because that's what I am saying. And if I am not lying, then I must be lying because I am saying that I am lying.

Are you enjoying already? Let me tell you about another paradox - ‘The Grandfather Paradox’. It says that if you travel back in time and kill your grandfather in his childhood (don't even think about it), neither your father, nor you will be born. Now the problem is that if you were not born itself in the first place, then who killed your grandfather? No one, and congrats, he didn't die. But in that case you will be born to cause your father's death.

The future ‘you’ comes to you and gives you something. And eventually in the future you give the thing the the past ‘you’ which you had because the future ‘you’ had given it to you. Where did the thing come from? The thing exists but has no origin. This one is the ‘Bootstrap Paradox’. Imagine that a time traveller gives the books written by Shakespeare to himself in the past so that he could copy it and claim it as his own work. Who then wrote the books?

Now, one big question is, “why do we even talk about something that isn't even supposed to make sense?” Actually paradoxes show another side of reality. Where we always judge things to be either right or wrong, there can be things which don't qualify as either. Things which leave us in a completely blown out mind before we arrive at a result.

I hope that it was fun. Well, there are a lot more interesting paradoxes left for you to find out about like The Infinite Hotel Paradox, Archilles and the Tortoise Paradox, Twin's paradox and so on.

Thank you so much for reading till the last and now might want to follow me, don't you. Don't worry, I follow back everyone who follows me🙂.