Zero is not the same thing as none. Zero is not the same as never, nothing, or absence. Zero is a thing unto itself. A concept. An integer at its simplest. It holds the spot between -1 and 1. It is simply a fantasy of mathematics. An expression with as much meaning as x or a+b=c. One can say there are no tigers here. But is one saying there are zero tigers? No. Because it is irrelevant. Zero tigers would only be significant if you wanted to add, multiply or divide by tigers. It is a senseless thing to think about. Zero tigers. Feh.
Zero is a fatastic portal between the real and the imaginary. It is the mathematician shoving a big cock up Xeno's Paradox's ass and fucking it to death with it. Conversely it is the thing by which no number can be divided. It is the concept by which the mathematician stares into the choatic void of his own making and shouts out in terror and insanity as he witnesses his own mind and reality crumbling before him. The Mind of God, my ass, he thinks.
Divide zero six times and you get zero. Try to divide six zero times. In reality if we have 6 things and we divide them no times we still have six things. BUT divide them zero times and not only do you not get six you get the most astounding "Fuck you" the mathematical world has ever conceived of. Even when confronted with the complication of not being able to take square roots of negatives, the mathematical types simply shrugged and said, "Hey no problem." They caused a revolution by christening such impossibilities imaginary numbers and putting a cute little italicized "i" at the end of them. But in the emergency, the calamity, the disaster known as the equation x divided zero times they laid down their heads on their desks, threw up their arms, extended their palms and thrust up their two longest phalanges.
They Said:
Not only is it impossible to use such an equation even theoretically in a useful way, it is an impossible equation to solve. Not only is it impossible to solve now with current technology and understanding, it is impossible to solve henceforth under any circumstances, no matter how much you stupid people beg and plead, world without end, amen. Fuck. Off.
Such is the truth and majesty of The Empty Set.
Circle. Slash. Fuck off. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Fuck you and everyone who looks like you. Just go get good and fucked off.
Circle. Slash.
We're going back to play around with zero.
Posted by jlp716 at November 20, 2005 01:41 AM