[Michaelangelica]

Well, almost nothing.

[Turtle]

If you don't have anything decent to say, keep your mouth shut!
There is nothing like an admonition from Mom.

[Buffy]

Hot dogs with maple syrup!

Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were good pancakes, and swore by his honour the mustard was naught. Now I'll stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forsworn,
Buffy

[Pyrotex]

But if you swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn; no more was this
knight, swearing by his honour, for he never had any...

[Pyrotex]

Amazon.com
The seemingly impossible Zen task--writing a book about nothing--has a loophole: people have been chatting, learning, and even fighting about nothing for millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by noted science writer Charles Seife, starts with the story of a modern battleship stopped dead in the water by a loose zero, then rewinds back to several hundred years BCE. Some empty-headed genius improved the traditional Eastern counting methods immeasurably by adding zero as a placeholder, which allowed the genesis of our still-used decimal system. It's all been uphill from there, but Seife is enthusiastic about his subject; his synthesis of math, history, and anthropology seduces the reader into a new fascination with the most troubling number.
Why did the Church reject the use of zero? How did mystics of all stripes get bent out of shape over it? Is it true that science as we know it depends on this mysterious round digit? Zero opens up these questions and lets us explore the answers and their ramifications for our oh-so-modern lives. Seife has fun with his format, too, starting with chapter 0 and finishing with an appendix titled "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine." (Warning: don't get your hopes up too much.) There are enough graphs and equations to scare off serious numerophobes, but the real story is in the interactions between artists, scientists, mathematicians, religious and political leaders, and the rest of us--it seems we really do have nothing in common. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

That's pretty friggen cool Pyro

The root of all mischief is having nothing to do and lots of time to do it.

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

That's pretty friggen cool Pyro

That's nothing - you should see hisother posts...

[Tormod]

What, can nothing kill this thread?

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Some empty-headed genius improved the traditional Eastern counting methods immeasurably by adding zero as a placeholder, which allowed the genesis of our still-used decimal system. It's all been uphill from there.

If it were not for 0 we would still be stuck with X.

Does that mean that we owe nothing to Tic-Tac-Toe?

Black holes are where God divided by zero,
Buffy

[Pyrotex]

May I cordially direct your attention to the Null Physics thread.
Why would I do that? (...you may ask)

Well, the book "Null Physics" arrived in the mail and I have read the first chapter. It's about "nothing". It purports to show that all of reality is composed of... nothing.