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The roleplaying game "Exalted" by White Wolf game studio has rules for what happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object, as part of a coherent, detailed cosmology where that kind of thing happens on a regular basis. At certain scales, from certain perspectives, it resembles our own world.
This is like saying there are game rules for what happens when a player draws a square circle.
Regardless of the game rules, both of those objects can't exist in the same world. Either the object wasn't immovable or the force wasn't unstoppable.
What if they pass through each other? Then the one doesn't move, and the other doesn't stop.
Mind. Blown.
The usual formulation has "irresistible" rather than "unstoppable" and I always took it that (1) "irresistible force" means something that substantially affects everything it interacts with, (2) "immovable object" means something on which no force has a substantial effect, and (3) "meets" means "interacts with in the way forces in this general class interact with objects in this general class".
So if they "pass through each other", that means the object remained immovable but the force wasn't in this case irresistible.
(It's an amusing answer, though.)
You forgot the citation!