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Very important question, Boerseun. The system prevents me from giving you any rep right now, so you'll have to be satisfied with nothing.

Oh well, then. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Posted
Just for clarity, we are very cavalier in discussing 'nothing', but are we talking metric or imperial, here? What units are we using in measuring 'nothing'?
It is important to understand that because we use these idiosyncratic and arbitrary measurement systems--whether imperial or metric--that we are wasting our time trying to detect nothing. In order to detect nothing we need to come up with a new measurement system based on the ratio of the atomic weight of Nullodium to the harmonic frequency of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Otherwise nothing will appear not to exist, and we will never be able to communicate with it.
Is 'nothing' under discussion here a zero reading in inch, millimeter, kilogram or pound?
Moreover, please note that zero nothing is NOT equal to a null set. If you are going to expect me to roll out the abstract algebra necessary to prove this to you, you can expect nothing.

 

Being mysterious is nothing,

Buffy

Posted

I postulate that nothing is equally and unequally distributed throughout the universe. ( ) <--- Inside those parentheses is nothing equal to the sum of nothing in the rest of the universe!

 

Bill

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I would suggest using dimensionless units in this case and calculate a ratio of something to nothing then we will know exactly nothing about how far away from having nothing we are. As you know anything divided by nothing equals infinity, so as we approach nothing it should be painstakingly obvious as the ratio suddenly drops from infinity, down to 0.

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Whoah!

 

Dangerous ground approaching!

 

We can't talk about 'nothing' as anything approaching zero without the measuring unit being agreed upon. After all, there's a world of difference between zero degrees Celcius and zero degrees Fahrenheit, not? Nothing of one is a lot of the other...

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And that is *precisely* why we will have lost nothing if we do not immediately come to an understanding of a universally derivable unit of nothingness!

 

Please join me in my crusade to find the ultimate unit of nothing that can be agreed upon by all races, creeds, species and civilizations throughout the universe! Please give generously to the Nothingness Association for Unambiguously Gauging the Hyperattenuation of Tangibility!

 

All for none, and none for all!

Buffy

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We can't talk about 'nothing' as anything approaching zero without the measuring unit being agreed upon. After all, there's a world of difference between zero degrees Celcius and zero degrees Fahrenheit, not? Nothing of one is a lot of the other...

 

Nothing like rigor to make one think. I suggest we adopt nothing less than the 'gob' as the basic unit of measure. :D I only recall a few of the multiples (nothing like a failing memory. ;) ) :hi: :)

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2 gobs = 1 hunk

2 hunks = 1 pile

2 piles = 1 shitload

2 shitloads = 1 buttload

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...Please give generously to the Nothingness Association for Unambiguously Gauging the Hyperattenuation of Tangibility!...
I have written out a check for $0.00 and made it out to NAUGHT. What is the mailing address, please? I have nothing to lose.

 

none is the lonliest number... :)

Pyro

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I have written out a check for $0.00 and made it out to NAUGHT. What is the mailing address, please? I have nothing to lose.

 

none is the lonliest number... :)

Pyro

Can a cheque to the value of nothing actually bounce? And if it can, what sound will it make?

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Can a cheque to the value of nothing actually bounce? And if it can, what sound will it make?

I'm quite sure that nothing sounds as bad as a dead cat bounce....

 

Awaiting neg rep from the Hypography Cat Lovers Association,

Buffy

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I'm quite sure that nothing sounds as bad as a dead cat bounce....

 

Awaiting neg rep from the Hypography Cat Lovers Association,

Buffy

 

Nothing in the last 50 posts comes even close to being this funny. :)

 

Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many went bouncing to St. Ives? :eek:

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When swinging a cat by the tail in order to clobber somebody over the head with it, nothing is more important than freezing the cat first. Not even the famed last-moment 'pussy-swing wrist flick', regardless of what competing pussy-whippers will have you believe.

Posted

:D you will do nothing of the sort! For if you tried I would integrate over your bodily wavefunction between the limits of nothingness - and then surely there would be naught left but nothing - or perhaps thats nothing left but naught :naughty:

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