Sunday, January 12, 2014

The primacy of Zero


Another horizon or limit, within which the "and" and "or" operate, is that they are inversely proportional to each other.  If you take two entities on a plane and move them apart by two inches, you strengthen the "or" by that amount, while weakening the "and" by the same amount.  Similarly, if you move them closer together, you strengthen the "and" while proportionally weakening the "or".  If the distance either the "and" or the "or" is strengthened equals "n", the amount its counterpart is strengthen equals "-n". Similarly, if the distance the "and" or the "or" is weakened equals "n", the distance its counterpart is weakened is "-n".  Thus, the net amount that the "and" and "or" are collectively either strengthened or weakened will always be "n" plus "-n" or zero. This is true in our universe of trillions upon trillions of entities in motion. Take any entity. The distance between that entity and any other entity is either increasing (in which case the strengthening of the "or" is being canceled out by the weakening of the "and", decreasing, in which case the strengthening of the "and" is being canceled out by the weakening of the "or", or the entities are not moving in relation to each other, in which both the strengthening  and weakening of both the "and" and "or" are zero.  Even in an expanding universe, in which the "or" is ascendant, the strengthening of the "or" is balanced out by the weakening of the "and". In sum, there is a kind of balance and equality in all the universes we can conceive of, even those that are contracting and expanding.  Even at the time of the big bang, in which I have stated that both the "and" and "or" were, in a sense, strengthened (as opposed to the above standard model in which they have an inverse relationship to each other), the strengthening of each would seem to cancel each other out.  There seems to be no escape from zero.
Now, in a quantum universe, an infinitesimally small entity may appear to simultaneously approach and retreat from another entity, but even here, the approaching would appear to be balanced out by the simultaneous retreat.  

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