Calculating Nothing

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Science in antiquity was top heavy with superstition, like one of those early XX

Century

airplanes unable to soar too high. In my opinion Science didn't get its wings

until it accepted the idea of nothing in its calculations. Once mathematicians

gave zero its

rightful place among the numbers, science and technology took off.

 

Early Christianity considered the idea of nothing so abhorrent that it made the

first year of our Era, 1 AD, instead of 0 AD. This resulted in the fiasco of

considering the year 2000 as the beginning of the 3rd Millennium, instead of the

year 2001.

 

We still feel 1 is the first number, when obviously we start from nothing. One

in my opinion, is a zero in disguise. Any number divided by itself = 1, so it

follows that

0 divided by 0 = 1 too. And Zero has the power to revert any number into zero.

1 times 0= 0. And so it's with any other number. The binary system used in

computers is only a combination of zeros and ones. Or in other words, Zeros and

pseudo zeroes.

 

And finally and uppers most, the total mass and energy of the universe being

equally divide between the positive and the negative equals zero. So after all

those transmutations and calculations all that started with nothing, ends in

nothing.

 

Just a few thoughts for the mathematical inclined which I am not. So address any

questions to Bill.

 

Pete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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