Here the tortoise has a head start but its speed is lesser than his competitor
T: tortoise
R: rabbit
Now to win rabbit has to cross tortoise: i.e. it has to come to the position of tortoise and then go ahead: look at the figure below: rabbit has to go first point ‘B’ where the rabbit is and then go ahead. But by the time rabbit reach B tortoise moved to C: now the whole thing can be seen fresh: R has to come to the position of tortoise and then go ahead : i.e. rabitt has to go C and then ahead but by the time it reaches C tortoise move to D ::::: So tortoise will be always ahead of the rabbit :::::: but as we know if the distances are sufficiently large rabbit must win:::: what is wrong with logic
R________T_____________
A________B_____________


_________R_____T________
A________B_____C_______


________________R__T____
A________B_____C__D____

Zeno was a greek philosopher who first asked this question and similar questions (he would tell a soldier to run away from arrow fire because then it could never catch them up... they still died... ).

Read more about his paradoxes here.

Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes)

His paradoxes still are talked about today, and gives philosophers a lot to think about in terms of the nature of distance and time. His theory might be wrong, but his thinking was genius!

O I get it, I saw a cartoon of this once or something, I don't know