Thursday, February 24, 2005

Real question about 0 (zero)

Does zero exist? Better think hard on this. A concept that seem pretty straightforward now, was not so straightforward in ages past and with Quantem mechanics that can of worms has been reopened.

Can zero exist in a universe who's foundation is filled with uncertainty. The prinicple of uncertainty not only prohibits black-holes from being black, it also causes a problem with any type of singularity including the Big-Bang singularity. And it causes a problem of "0" since engergy seems not to be able to have a zero state. Since matter and engergy are different aspects of the same thing (e=mc2) matter cannot have a zero state.

In the past the argument was whether zero was an actuality or simply a philosophical construction. Surely you can zero-out a measuring device..right? Well if we accept uncertainty then absolutely zeroing anything out is impossible.

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