The Paradox of Juggling

We all know juggling when we see it (although some forms are more or less identifiable as such).

But do we know when juggling is born and dies?

Is it born during the throwing of the object?

If we assume that juggling is born when the object leaves my hand, is juggling then only an object thrown in the air? Or to go further, that object leaving my hand?

Does juggling only exist when I don’t grab the object with my hand or another part of my body?

At what point can an object be considered seized?

Can an object that is simply placed and not grabbed on a part of my body be considered in a state between “being juggled” and “not juggled”?

But since I no longer have any impact on the object until I receive it, can it still be considered juggled?

If I manipulate an object with another object, is it still juggling? (Like the diabolo, or the juggling of plastic bags with fans as proposed by Phia Ménard).

If juggling is the act of throwing and catching an object, or manipulating an object with the intention of juggling, when can an object no longer be considered juggable?

Can I juggle other materials that are not objects (dirt, grass, etc.)? Does matter have to be palpable to be considered juggled (fire, air, water…)?

Can I juggle a body?

Is juggling just an object movement?

If so, removing anything else that is unnecessary to this, can juggling then happen on its own in nature?

Is a leaf flying in the wind juggling born of the Coriolis force?

If I juggle objects that don’t move, am I juggling, juggling myself, or is the object juggling me?

When I walk, am I juggling the earth beneath me?

Can I juggle molecules? Atoms? How do you juggle air? Light?

If I manipulate atoms or molecules, when I interact with these impalpable materials, am I juggling them?

My shadow being a result of my interaction with the light, is it juggled or does it juggle itself?

Also, my body is constantly exchanging atoms with the world around it, so am I doing

passing

* with my environment? Or, my body interacting with the air, which interferes with other elements around it, can we say that I juggle by correspondence?

Let’s say that the juggling starts before the object leaves my hand. Does its birth imply the setting in motion of my body?

Could I juggle without having to throw an object or even drop an object?

Would only moving my body with an object held by a part of my body allow me to juggle?

Going further and following this same logic, if I never throw an object and movement is the only resultant for juggling to occur, is the object then necessary for juggling to exist?

In other words, can I juggle without an object?

Besides, aren’t the clothes I wear already juggled by myself through my body movements?

Can I juggle naked, alone without an object?

If juggling is only the action of juggling something, can dance be considered as a juggling of my own body? Of my muscles, my skin, my bones?

How can I juggle my own body?

Also, isn’t my body juggling itself by circulating blood through my veins?

Is juggling pure movement?

If not, is juggling born before movement? The moment I decide to juggle? Or even before, when I intended to juggle?

If it is born at the moment of my intention or decision to juggle, can I juggle without even a movement that is perceptible to the naked eye?

At the time of my decision to juggle, I am not yet in motion to juggle. And yet, has juggling already been born?

Would my will alone be the only parameter that allows juggling to be born?

What about the public eye?

Is juggling born when the audience wants it? Or when I decide?

Does the birth or death of juggling occur when the audience unconsciously decides that a juggler is or is not juggling?

Is the juggling based on a common consensus between the audience and myself? Does juggling only exist if there is an actor and a spectator?

Does the audience have to see the juggled object to consider that I am juggling?

If I assure him that I am juggling but I don’t have an object, will he believe me?

If the audience only sees a shadow of myself juggling (real objects dedicated to juggling), can we still consider that the audience is watching juggling?

If not yet any of these things, wouldn’t juggling be born when all these parameters come together? That is, only when my intention to juggle leads to a movement of my body that causes an object to move in space until the end of my juggling action?

So, could we admit that as long as the juggled action is not finished, the juggling would not be alive?

Would every move, every decision made before that be in some kind of quantum state of being and not being juggling?

Would juggling be a form of superimposed state as we could find in Schrödinger’s paradox and his cat both dead and alive? A first visible quantum state?

If we continue this line of reasoning, at what point does juggling die?

When I decided to stop juggling?

Is it when the object falls?

When can we consider that the object has fallen?

The moment the object touches the ground, or the moment it leaves my hand?

Is it when the object stops moving on a surface that is not my body?

So does juggling die the moment the object stops moving? If so, can I really juggle an object that does not move? Is there such a thing as juggling only with falls?

Does the juggling die before the fall?

When the object is received, why shouldn’t we consider that the juggling dies? The object being back to an ordinary state, as it is simply held by my hand, how would it still be juggled?

Between catching it by myself and returning my body to a neutral position (let’s say arms at my sides), is there still juggling?

Just as at its birth, is the juggling still alive at the end of the object’s catching movement?

Taking this idea a step further, if my movement leading to the return to the neutral position does not stop after the object is received, can this movement still be considered juggling?

How long between two juggling throws or actions does the juggling die and give way to something else?

If this time is infinite, can we say that as I write this, I am still juggling?

Can we say that the juggling dies at the very moment of the throw?

Is the object during this throwing time in a quantum form of juggling because at the same time juggled and not juggled?

By the way, can an object only be juggled or not juggled?

Can it be “more” or “less” juggled?

If so, is there a distance scale relationship between my hand and the object? Am I juggling less and less as I throw higher and higher?

If not, would the form of juggling that we define as juggling then only be an alternation of juggled and non juggled moments?

We would then return to the basic subject.

At what point is juggling born and dies?

Thanks

Joseph Bleher, Kate Boschetti, Cyrille Roussial, Laurane Wütrich