Random Thoughts or Whatever

[spicer]

What's wrong with being a weirdo? An occasional weirdo.

Yeah. Besides there are so many its getting hard to be weird, have to put some thought into it, not merely different but weird. Putting thought into it might defeat the purpose, if there is a purpose.

 

[spicer]

Believe me, I am already considered a Full-Fledged weirdo. I didn't want someone calling in the gendarmes.

Full fledged? You mean there are standards. Interesting...

 

[Quadman2]

A random thought that I cannot, and never have understood is about what ZERO (0) is, or what it stands for.

I know the history of the concept of this...idea, but still can't appreciate the idea of getting something from nothing.


And leave "Infinity" out of the equation for the above, as it's a concept; another word to be considered, but unknowable.


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[DesertRatt]

And leave "Infinity" out of the equation for the above, as it's a concept; another word to be considered, but unknowable.

Good point.

Pretty much all words are fuzzy concepts. Consider how words like hate, freedom, or evil are wielded.

We are all left guessing all the time.

 

[DesertRatt]

Full fledged? You mean there are standards. Interesting...

First, the antonyms.

"Antonyms for weird include ordinary, common, normal, standard, average, everyday, regular, simple, usual and customary."

 

[spicer]

First, the antonyms.

"Antonyms for weird include ordinary, common, normal, standard, average, everyday, regular, simple, usual and customary."

For it to be weird, really weird, no words can describe it. That's what makes it weird, really weird, beyond any qualifying or quantifying. It's just weird. Must maintain integrity of the language.

 

[DesertRatt]

no words can describe it.

Nailed it!

 

[nailer]

Life is weird and weirdos live it best.

 

[spicer]

Nailed it!

Near as I could come to describe it. In the same category as zero. Zero, a word for nothing, what is nothing, it is weird. Is it not possible to describe nothing, something is needed to describe nothing. Nothing can describe nothing. It's weird.

 

[DesertRatt]

While I was walking..............and watching the eggs roll by..........


I was contemplating the incomprehensible complexity of the machine we are living in. The layers of circuits, conduits, force fields, connectors, conveyances, power sources, sub-systems, radiation patterns, communications links all running 24/7 toward some WEIRDLY coordinated, yet indescribable, destination. It makes plain old "universe" look like a bore.

 

[Mr Boochie]

The layers of circuits, conduits, force fields, connectors, conveyances, power sources, sub-systems, radiation patterns, communications links all running 24/7 toward some WEIRDLY coordinated, yet indescribable, destination. It makes plain old "universe" look like a bore.

And then there's the Black Hole.

 

[nailer]

I was contemplating the incomprehensible complexity of the machine we are living in. The layers of circuits, conduits, force fields, connectors, conveyances, power sources, sub-systems, radiation patterns, communications links all running 24/7 toward some WEIRDLY coordinated, yet indescribable, destination. It makes plain old "universe" look like a bore.

Isn't it all part of this universe? Or maybe it's a simulation in this universe as appossed to reality in a parallel universe.

 

[DesertRatt]

Or maybe it's a simulation in this universe as appossed to reality in a parallel universe.

There are very credible theories that we are a simulation being run by much more advanced intelligence. Pretty high odds too.

 

[SolderIron]

A random thought that I cannot, and never have understood is about what ZERO (0) is, or what it stands for.

I know the history of the concept of this...idea, but still can't appreciate the idea of getting something from nothing.


And leave "Infinity" out of the equation for the above, as it's a concept; another word to be considered, but unknowable.


Q

Think of zero as the midpoint between + and - infinity

 

[DeadRock]

Think of zero as the midpoint between + and - infinity

So...infinity goes both ways?

 

[Quadman2]

Strange that the idea of the "0" was never accepted until the 1300's in Europe, yet there's evidence of a symbol of this "concept" being used 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia.

And they called them "old fashioned"!

I even remembered as a kid we used to call some we didn't like..."Zero's". So, I guess that's giving something to some one indicating being nothing.


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[spicer]

I don't know what nothing is but much is made of it.

 

[Shominy]

It really bugs me that the internal consistency of arithmetic is provably impossible.
Thanks, Kurtsy baybee.

 

[Quadman2]

I don't know what nothing is but much is made of it.

Try looking up "Black Matter"... if you want to give your head a spin or a good work out, Spice.

Some think there is more of "It" than the "stuff" we can detect!

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[DesertRatt]

At the other end of the numerical spectrum, Human appreciation of large numbers like million, Billion, trillion is pretty much completely abstract.