Nothing

[DougF]

What to do when you have NOTHING to do?

 

When Scottish Highlanders get bored with their sheep herding!

 

No this is not dirty. Your kids, wife, girlfriend, grandmother, grandfather, husband, boyfriend, or whoever can view this, even Sheep-Herding Shepherds.

p.s. These guys are not retired electricians either!

 

 

NEWS DEFAULT VIRAL ST_UIP

 

 

 

 

(just wonder how many "takes" this took???)

 

 

:wave::wave::wave::wave:

[Pyrotex]

nothing is entirely separate or autonomous

 

Ah. There you are. What's up?

- Okay, sir, we're ready for the second experiment.

Are we analyzing the same Nothing as before?

- Well, theoretically, no sir, because Nothing is entirely separate.

Nothing is separate?

- Yes. That means you cannot analyze the same Nothing twice.

So? So...you had to put a new sample of Nothing in the analyzer?

- Well, actually, no. The Nothing in the analyzer becomes a new sample.

Okay, I give up. How does this Nothing replace the old Nothing?

- Damn, how do I explain this? The new Nothing doesn't replace the old Nothing.

So how the hell do we have Nothing that isn't the old Nothing?

- According to theory, sir, it's because Nothing is autonomous.

Autonomous? How the frickin hell can Nothing be autonomous.

- Autonomousity is the physical property of not being subject to Natural Law.

Nothing is not subject to Natural Law?

- Absolutely correct, sir! I couldn't have said it better myself.

So what the frick does that mean, you techno-loony!

- Please, sir, calm down. It just means that you can assign a nonstate vector to Nothing.

This just goes on and on and on, doesn't it? What's a nonstate vector?

- It's kind of like a name tag of a particle's identity in Space-Time, sir, only it's blank.

You've got ten seconds to say something rational or I pull this trigger.

- Wait! Really! The bottom line is, you can't associate an identity to Nothing, except for the null identity.

Okay, that begins to make sense. And?

- Well, it's Nothing, right! It can't be differentiated from other Nothings.

Why do I feel like you're leading me around in a big circle?

- It's because Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous! But never both at the same time! See?

I hate you. I really, really hate you...

- Stop! Nothing is separate, so it's impossible to analyze the same sample of Nothing twice...

I have never hated anyone so much as I hate you...

- Except you can when Nothing is autonomous -- when it's not bound by Natural Laws...

This world would be such a better place without the likes of you...

- Because being separate is the only Natural Law that Nothing can obey.

There's not a jury in the world that would... Hunh? So, we CAN analyze the same Nothing twice?

- Yessir. But only when it's autonomous.

And how, pray tell, do we know when our Nothing in the analyzer is autonomous?

- Well you can't never know, sir, because of Neitherburg's Nonuncertainty Principle.

Which is?

- Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous, but you can only tell which when it doesn't matter.

 

:eek2: [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!]

 

PREV -- NEXT

[Buffy]

Amazon.com: Nothing: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (9780199225866): Frank Close: Books http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0199225869/

 

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal, :eek2:

Buffy

[Pyrotex]

Nothing makes a good 'read' like a book filled with Nothing.

[Boerseun]

Nothing makes a good 'read' like a book filled with Nothing.

I don't know. I was waiting for a twist near the end, but the book left me somewhat... unfulfilled. Like when you wait the whole year for Christmas only to find nothing under the tree.

[Donk]

Nothing to do

 

It's a quarter to two and there's nothing to do.

So me and my crew are feeling quite blue.

The notion just grew that we'd best have a brew.

Or get into a stew... or just go cuckoo...

 

The start of a piece of verse I wrote during a very boring nightshift nearly 40 years ago. The words just flowed - I had twenty lines (= 40 unique rhymes for two/do/crew/blue) in less than 15 minutes.

 

Well, it helped to pass the time :hihi:

[modest]

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen"

 

-Douglas Adams

[coldcreation]

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen"

 

-Douglas Adams

 

Hi hi hi...

 

I have (or haven't) written Nothing for a while here at Hypo.

 

Hello Modest, hello all...

 

It's a pleasure to be back.

 

:)

 

CC

[modest]

Nothing could be better :D

 

Good to see ya ColdCreation

 

~modest :)

[Turtle]

Okay, sir, we're ready for the second experiment.

-Are we analyzing the same Nothing as before?

 

-Which is?

Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous, but you can only tell which when it doesn't matter.

 

:D [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!]

 

what bohm meant, or should have meant, or should have said, is what r.t. george has said all along, i.e., nothing is not connected. when nothing is not connected, you can always tell. :) ;)

[Turtle]

:autumnleaves: :hal_jackolantern: :bat:

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

nothing to see here;)

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

nor here either XD

[Pyrotex]

I saw Nothing, officer, and I'm willing to testify in court that I saw it!!!!!

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Lol! XD

[Turtle]

 

:evil: can't dance. :) :lol:

[Pyrotex]

I've never seen Nothing like it, Turtle.