Zeno’s Paradox is about the presumption by some phusikoi (our modern physicists) that space and time are infinitely divisible.
Physicists haven’t solved his paradox, as you assert in your story, they have just redefined the problem so that it no longer deals with infinitely divisible phenomena, and added a dash of discourtesy toward Zeno by assuming he didn’t realize a room had a finite length.
But let’s assume that he did know that a room had a finite length. After all, Greeks back then were calculating the circumference of the earth to within a very close range, so they must have cottoned on to the understanding of finite lengths.
So what could Zeno have been on about? He kept giving examples and they had this commonality: the impossibility of infinitely divisible time. But also something else, something so important that it isn’t even mentioned because at that time it was just known by all. The examples were meant to invoke an image in the mind of his listeners; but not of a graph on blocked paper with mathematical notation, but rather of an actual scene as if it were being experienced by the listener.
And if it isn’t clear what I’m talking about, an example might help (because it will invoke an image in your mind). I once asked a class of bright university students to draw a picture of the solar system, and they all pretty much did the same thing: drew a diagram looking down on the solar plane from above, with concentric circles around a central sun.
Why did they do this? Because they’ve been taught well to dismiss their subjective perceptions and only use objective ideas. If you did the same to a class full of ancient Greeks, they would have first demanded “at what time of the year?” because the appearance of the planets are in different places at different times of the year. And they would start by drawing a horizon…
Do we even see a difference today between the formula F=MA and a piece of chalk thrown across the room so that it smashes into pieces on the wall?
If time, as postulated, is infinitely divisible, then nothing can happen, because an infinity of moments of time that are approaching no duration at all (but all of a non-zero duration) are an infinite duration of time — qualitatively speaking.
Overlooking the point of Zeno’s paradox isn’t a solution, it’s just a cheap trick.
